Frederick Brown
Date of birth: 1851
Place of birth: Chelmsford
Date of death: 1941
Place of death: Richmond
Category: painter
Identity:
Frederick Brown was a watercolourist and painter of landscape and genre.
Life:
He studied at the Royal College of Art from 1868-1877 and later in Paris with Robert-Fleury and Bougereau. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1879 and at the Royal Society of British Artists (of which Whistler was President, 1886-1888). In 1886, Brown was responsible for setting up the New English Art Club. He also became well known as an art teacher, succeeding Alphonse Legros as Slade Professor in 1892.
He bought Sketch for 'La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine' y049 in 1893 from E.J. van Wisselingh and sold it six years later to the Goupil Gallery.
Bibliography:
Wood, Christopher, Victorian Artists, Suffolk 1995; Johnson, Jane (ed.), Works Exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists 1824-1893..., Suffolk, 1975; The Grove Dictionary of Art Online, ed. L. Macy.
