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    MADAME HENRIETTE BROWN. 87

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    as most _improvable in her " -daughter ' s case ; but , taught by her own w experience omanno , she matter regarde what d it may in princi be her ple position as a positiv or prospects e duty for , to every be

    , the prep When mother ared , for therefore strong such l a , urged possible her _daxLg her contingency hter to choose had reached either . music the age or painting of seventeen and ,

    to prosecute its stud y y with a view to acquiring such a mastery , of it as should enable her to feel that she possessed a talent that would

    both help to occupy and embellish her life , and afford her a safe and certain Thus lad support incited who in b - y thoug case her of h parents not misfortune yet to conscious the . choice of of any an especial avocation vocation , the

    for young the brush y , felt , that , on the whole , she preferred drawing to , , music Her , choice determined thus made to make she herself was laced a painter under . the care of M . Chaplin ,

    in whose atelier she now , passed a p couple of days every week , drawing busilat home between her lessons . Pier progress from this

    y time was steady and rapid ; and for the next few years—always accompanied by her mother , who constantly superintended her

    studies , and rejoiced in her success—she continued to paint with equal dilifrom the living model in the atelier of her teacher ,

    gence and from the works of the old masters in the gallery of the Louvre . Encouraged bthe approbation of her friends , she ventured in

    1855 to send five y pictures to the _GresCt Exhibition of that year ; and few artists- have ever met with so prompt an acceptance of their

    works , on the part of the public , as that accorded to the paintings in The question most . important of these" A Friar of the Order of Christian

    Doctrine" four feet three inches , long by three feet high , was purchased at , four thousand francs , and is now in a private collection at

    Manchester ; the " Boy and Rabbits" was bought by M . Labouchere ; two _" School-room Scenes " were bought by English purchasers ; and

    "ACharity School at Aix" was bought by the Emperor Napoleon . To the Exhibition of 185 7 , Madame Henriette Brown again sent

    five pictures ; viz ., " The Puritans , " five feet long by four feet three inches high , purchased by the Empress Eugenie at six thousand The

    francs ; " The Grandmother , " _" The Class at Catechism , " " Writing Lesson , " and a " Portrait of a Child , " four small pictures , of which the first is in Beliumthe second in the gallery of the

    Count de Moray , the third in g Eng , land , and the fourth in the possession of an amateur of Paris .

    In 1859 , she exhibited her great picture , " The Sisters of Charity /' five feet ten inches long bfour feet three inches high , purchased at

    twelve thousand francs by y the directors of a lottery , got up on behalf of some charitable object under the auspices of the emperor , in which

    it figured as the principal prize , and from which it passed into the possession of M . Laperche of Paris . A full-length portrait of

    M . de G * * * , much admired for its breadth and power of execution ,

    Madame Henriette Brown. 87

    MADAME HENRIETTE BROWN . 87

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1860, page 87, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041860/page/15/