Painting of Henriette Browne (France) 

          Browne's (1829-1901) academic paintings of oriental subjects appealed to British and French audiences during the age of empire.  Browne painted white European women as religious figures, sometimes tending the sick or at their devotions, as in The Puritans (La Lecture de la Bible) of 1857. which was bought by Empress Eugenie of France. She also represented woman as exotic colonial 'other'- She painted dancing girls and harems, and her Moorish Girl with Parakeet.

           Browne adopted her pseudonym from her debut at the Paris Salon of 1853 onwards.    She exhibited mainly in France and England.  In London her work was exhibited at the Royal Academy, the French Gallery, Pall Mall and the Society of Female Artists Academy.

           Henriette Browne was one of the three women among the founders of the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts.  She was among the small group of French artists that the young painter Elizabeth Southerden Thompson(Lady Butler)chose to visit in Paris in 1874.  Browne also showed her work at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1855 and the International Colonial Exhibition in Amsterdam in 1883. She was married to  deplomat Comte Jules de Saux.  She used her travels with husband including in Egypt, Syria and Morocco as subject matter for her art.