She taught oil and watercolor painting in downtown Denver and was an organizer and jurist at local art exhibitions.

Henrietta Elizabeth Bromwell, nicknamed Nettie, was born in Charleston, Illinois on July 13, 1859.

The Bromwells moved to Colorado Territory in 1870, and lived near South Platte River near wooded land.

Manitou and similar places and while home she created works of art at Cherry Creek Bottoms, West Denver and Arlington, now called Auraria.

She started with scenic landscape paintings of the mountains, and daily scenes about work on farms, including farmhouses, barns, hay stacks.

Bromwell organized shows and catalogs, was a jurist, and performed other administrative functions for the club.

[1] Charles Partridge Adams, a member of the Artists' Club, and Bromwell exhibited at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition in Omaha in 1898.

Over the years, she collected Native American artifacts, family photograph albums, scrapbooks, musical instruments and other items that she donated for posterity.

[3] Her work was exhibited in 2000 as part of the Time and Place: One Hundred Years of Women Artists in Colorado 1900–2000 at the Metro State Center for the Visual Arts.

[2] Eight of her works were shown, including Church in Moonlight, Autumn Day, Wash and Bridge, and Small Denver Scene Near South Platte.