Fanny Corbaux

When she was about fifteen her father was reduced to poverty,[3] and, despite a minimal artistic education, she was obliged to use her talent for painting to earn money.

A critic in the Literary Gazette said that Corbaux had "depicted oriental beauty in all its varieties of voluptuous languor and fascinating vivacity".

[8] In 1839 Corbaux took out a patent, jointly with Francis Gybbon Spilsbury and Alexander S. Byrne for what was described as an "improvement in the mode of applying distemper colors, having albumen or gelatin for the vehicle, so as to render the same more durable, and preserving the same when not wanted for immediate use.

"[9] Corbaux gained a reputation as a biblical critic for her contributions to periodicals and literary societies on subjects relating to scriptural history.

They included her Letters on the Physical Geography of the Exodus, published in the Athenæum, and a series on the Rephaim for the Journal of Sacred Literature.