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    86 MADAME HENRIETTE BEOWN.

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    mainiiig entirely aloof from the fascinating but stormy precincts of the " artist world ' ' and leading , in . all other respects , the ordinary

    , life of a woman of this nineteenth century in the higher walks of social existence .

    To a lady thus desirous of being known to the public only by her worksthe adoption of a nom de pincecm under which to hide her

    personal , individuality , while submitting tlie results of her labor to the appreciation of the public , was evidently a condition of primary

    necessity . Accordingly , when the productions of her pencil were first offered to tlie inspection of the world , at the Universal

    Exhibition of 1855 , she assumed the name of " Iienriette Brown , " being that of her maternal grandmother , as the appellation by which

    alone she wished to be known in the walk of art upon which she had entered .

    The family of Madame Henriette Brown , as we will therefore call herwas oriinally of Brittanybut has been established in Paris

    for , several gener g ations . She hers , elf was born and brought up at Paris , with the advantage , however , of an annual visit to tlie

    country . She was never sent to school , but was carefully educated at home by her mother , with the assistance of masters in certain

    branches . The Count de Bouteiller being an accomplished musician , and

    the countess an equally remarkable amateur singer , much attention was bestowed by them oil the musical education of their daughter .

    Henriette also took lessons in drawing for several years , but without iving any particular promise of success in that line .

    g Her mother , a woman of superior understanding " , had been , previous to her marriage with the Count de Bouteiller , and while still

    very young , left a widow with a jointure which , though sufficient for her own support and that of her infant sonwas not large enough

    , to allow her to give to the latter the liberal educational advantages which slie wished him to enjoy . Being , as already remarked , one

    of the most accomplished amateur singers of Paris , she determined to avail herself of the resource which this talent afforded herand

    during several years gave lessons in singing , which enabled her , to make ample provision for the education of her son . The lesson

    thus learned by this excellent mother was never forgotten by her ; and though placed in a position of affluence by her second marriage ,

    she never lost sight of the importance to women , even in comparatively easy circumstances , of possessing some honorable and certain

    means of making money . In educating her daughter , she constantly set before her the desirability of her selecting some branch

    of art , which she should cultivate with especial reference , first to the . beneficial and elevating effect that would naturally be exercised on

    her own character and on the tone of her every-day life by tlie steady pursuit of some definite and serious aimand nextto its

    "being made available by her as a means of support , under any ,

    unexpected reverse of fortune . Such a reverse she naturally regarded

    86 Madame Henriette Beown.

    86 MADAME HENRIETTE _BEOWN .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1860, page 86, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041860/page/14/