Marian "Mady" Collier[1] (
néeMarian Huxley; 1859–1887)[2] also spelled as Marion Huxley, was a British 19th-century painter and is associated with the
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.[3]
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.[5] 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.[6] She had erratic behavior and possibly mental illness, which appeared to increase in symptoms before she died.[7]
After Marion died, John Collier married her younger sister Emma Huxley in 1889 in Norway.[8][9]