Marian Collier (painter)
British painter (1859–1887)
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Marian "Mady" Collier[1] (née Huxley; 1859–1887)[2] also spelled as Marion Huxley,[3] was a British 19th-century painter and is associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.[4]
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Marian Collier | |
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Painting of Marion Collier (née Huxley), from between 1882 and 1883, by John Collier | |
| Born | 1859 London, England |
| Died | December 1887 (aged 27–28) |
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Biography
Marian Huxley was born in 1859 in London, to father Thomas Henry Huxley and mother Henrietta Anne Heathorn.[5][6] She had seven siblings, including her brother Leonard Huxley.[6] She studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Art in London.[5] Her work was shown at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Grosvenor Gallery.[5]
On 30 June 1879 Huxley married the British writer and portrait painter, John Collier, also a Slade graduate.[1] Together they had a daughter named Joyce, their only child in 1884.[6] After the birth of Joyce, Huxley suffered from "nervous hysteria" (possibly postpartum depression) and in November 1887 she was taken to Paris for treatment with Jean-Martin Charcot, however, she contracted pneumonia and died in December 1887.[7] She had erratic behavior and possibly mental illness, which appeared to increase in symptoms before she died.[8]
After Marian died, John Collier married her younger sister Ethel Huxley in 1889 in Norway.[9][10]
Collier's work can be found in museum collections, including at the National Portrait Gallery in London,[11] and the Science Museum in London.[3]
