The building in the Rue d'Isabelle
will shortly be pulled down.
{121} _Pictures of the Past_, by Francis H. Grundy, C.E: Griffith &
Farran, 1879; _Emily Bronte_, by A. Mary F. Robinson: W. H. Allen, 1883;
_The Bronte Family_, _with Special Reference to Patrick Branwell Bronte_,
by Francis A. Leyland: Hurst & Blackett, 2 vols. 1886.
{123} After Mr. Bronte's death Mr. Nicholls removed it to Ireland.
Being of opinion that the only accurate portrait was that of Emily, he
cut this out and destroyed the remainder. The portrait of Emily was
given to Martha Brown, the servant, on one of her visits to Mr. Nicholls,
and I have not been able to trace it. There are three or four so-called
portraits of Emily in existence, but they are all repudiated by Mr.
Nicholls as absolutely unlike her. The supposed portrait which appeared
in _The Woman at Home_ for July 1894 is now known to have been merely an
illustration from a 'Book of Beauty,' and entirely spurious.
{138} There are two portraits of Branwell in existence, both of them in
the possession of Mr. Nicholls. One of them is a medallion by his friend
Leyland, the other the silhouette which accompanies this chapter. They
both suggest, mainly on account of the clothing, a man of more mature
years than Branwell actually attained to.
{142} In the _Mirror_, 1872, Mr.
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