Some writers have confused the first “Mrs. Philip Henry Gosse” (née Emily Bowes) with the second "Mrs. Philip Henry Gosse" (née Eliza Brightwen, 1813-1900). Emily Bowes Gosse was neither a painter nor an illustrator, did not study with John Sell Cotman and did not illustrate P. H. Gosse’s Aquarium (see R. B. Freeman and Douglas Wertheimer, "Emily Gosse: A Bibliography", Brethren Historical Review 17, 2021, p. 27, n.7).
