Catherine, the artist’s daughter, sat for the girl. Unusually for Madox Brown, this picture of a young girl gathering flowers accompanied by her tortoiseshell cat contains no literary or historical meaning and is closer in spirit to the solitary female figure with narrative trappings that Rossetti and Millais worked on.
This is the smaller of two versions (the other is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) which Madox Brown painted to attract ‘Patrons who wanted something pretty’.
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladylever/collections/nosegay.asp
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