When did Charlotte Brontë stop using her pseudonym Currer Bell?
Charlotte Brontë was always Currer Bell during her lifetime. It was only with the publication of Mrs Gaskell’s ‘Life of Charlotte Brontë’ in 1857, two years after Charlotte’s death, that the public learnt that Currer Bell was Charlotte Brontë. However some publishers still continued to use the pseudonym.

I believe I own a painting by Patrick Branwell Brontë. The painting is of a Welsh landscape and is signed in the lower right corner ‘B. Bronte’.
Given the signature it is quite natural to assume that is the case. However, Branwell Brontë rarely signed his oil paintings. His usual signature on paintings, drawings and manuscripts was ‘P.B.Brontë’ or ‘P.B. b-të’ or ‘P.B.B’, but never ‘B.Brontë’. The handwriting of the ‘B.Bronte signature does not resemble known examples of Branwell Brontë’s signature. The style is unlike any authenticated work by Branwell Brontë. Branwell mostly painted portraits or worked in pen and ink. Also, many of the paintings by ‘B.Bronte’ show landscapes in Wales, Warwickshire or the North East of England and are most likely studies from life. As far as we know, Branwell Brontë only visited North Wales once and he never travelled further north than the Lake District. Unfortunately, we know nothing about the life of ‘B.Bronte’ but the paintings have been dated as being from the late nineteenth century.

Could you tell me if it would be possible to search the library catalogue online?
The Curator and Librarian are currently undertaking a two year cataloguing project of the museum and library collection. One of the outcomes of the project will be an on-line catalogue providing external access to the holdings of the Brontë Society.