The daughter of Daniel Brown, a paint manufacturer, she lived in London (Forest Gate) and exhibited at RA from 1883-87.
The 1891 Census lists her as an Artist, born in Bath, Somerset, and living at Trevordun Place, Falmouth. By 1893 she was living in New Barnet, Herts. Not known to have exhibited locally.
Brown was an artist, known by caricature (Fitz, p267 in Tovey 2009) to be a Scot. He is listed in the 1901 Census as the 20 year-old artist/painter son of John Eccles Brown, an India Rubber Manufacturer, living on Porthminster Hill. From Census data (1901), however, he was stated to have been born in St Ives.
An H Brown is known to have attended the Falmouth School of Art in 1912, and to have submitted one work to the RA, but this may or may not be the same person. No further information is currently available at this time.
Noticing a Birmingham exhibition by this artist in 1896, Johnson & Greutzner identify her as giving an address in Teignmouth, Devon. Tovey lists a working life of painting principally still-life in St Ives from 1898 to 1937. She exhibited with the RCPS in Cornwall and was a member of STISA.
Born in Ruddington, near Nottingham, Brown studied at Nottingham School of Art under Andrew McCallum. From 1889 to 1892 he attended the Herkomer School of Art at Bushey. One of the earliest visiting painters to West Cornwall, during the early 1990s he worked from St Ives and Carbis Bay.
An artist giving the name Alfred BROWN exhibited two paintings, A Rough Pasture and A North-west Breeze, in the Dowdeswell Exhibition of 1890, and - if this is the same person - indicates association with the Newlyn and St Ives painters even earlier. Also at this period he began exhibiting at the RA. The Drinking Pool, purchased by Manchester in 1895, is a well known and iconic representation of his work in genre.
Popular for his atmospheric treatment of sea and coastal subjects with brooding skies, he helped bring St Ives landscape and marine painting to national prominence, being made one of the first honorary members of STISA in the 1930s.
At the Opening Exhibition of NAG in 1895 he showed a landscape entitled Wherries running down to Yarmouth. A major retrospective exhibition of his work was held in 1935 at Norwich Castle Museum, and in 1938 he was knighted. Sir John was also well-known for his Norfolk and Suffolk landscapes, although he did paint some portraits. He was a Royal Academician who deliberately resisted Modernist influences, annd was one of the signatures on the Glanville letter of November 1898 concerned about development schemes in St Ives.
His work The Raincloud, was selected for the 1988 RA Exhibition The Edwardians and After (1900-1950 paintings). He was married to the artist Mia Edwards (see separately under Mia Arnesby BROWN), who predeceased him. He died in Norfolk, his alternative home to that in St Ives for many years.
Ingrid Brown is a portrait, figurative and plein air artist living in west Cornwall. In 2011 she obtained a BA in History of Art from York University, followed by an MA in Architectural History and Theory.
Her work has been exhibited in Cornwall and London. She works to commission.
Born on 14 March 1851 in Chelmsford, Essex, Brown studied at the Royal College of Art (1868-77) and in Paris at Academie Julian with Robert-Fleury and Bougereau (1883). In the Edgbastonia, Fred Brown is noted ‘before his professional days’ to have shared a house in Newlyn in 1881 with eight other artists, including William John WAINWRIGHT, Charles Henry WHITWORTH, Edwin HARRIS and Richard Malcolm LLOYD.
Bednar has noted a Newlyn title by Brown in 1881, and in 1892 he succeeded Alphonse Legros as a Slade Professor. Scott has noted ‘a fairly brief connection with Walberswick’ in his essay on the coastal artists colonies in Painting at the Edge. Brown played an important part in the founding of the NEAC with a number of others, including those from Newlyn. Two of his paintings were purchased in 1933 (Portrait of the Painter) and 1940 (The Ivy Arch) for the Chantrey Bequest. He died on 8 January, 1941, age 89, at Richmond upon Thames.
Born in Warminster, Wiltshire, the artist was a London-based painter (address in Swiss Cottage) until the 1891 Census, when he and his wife, Edith Clara, were living in the parish of St Uny, Lelant, near St Ives.
His painting for the 1890 exhibition at Dowdeswells, which was entitled November Weather-St Ives, indicates that they had moved to Cornwall some time earlier. His daughter Constance Mabel, 3 years old at that time, had been born in Berlin, an Overseas British subject.
Warne Browne exhibited at Newlyn from the opening exhibition in 1895, his paintings always proving popular. A major sale he achieved at NAG was of seven sketches on sea subjects in 1899. By 1901 he and his wife and three daughters had moved to live in Ruan Minor, the address he gave for exhibition purposes. He was a member of the NSA. Although he exhibited at the Royal Academy, he did not achieve the recognition he deserved in the UK. However, his seascapes were sought after by Americans.
Tovey has found an image of Pilchard Fishing with the Seine Net, reproduced in 1901 in The Sphere, which was simultaneously showing at an exhibition at the St James Gallery in London. This scene shows a large group of fisherman working their large seine net, possibly off the coast of St Ives, though the location is indeterminate.
In 1905 he exhibited two paintings at NAG, which were both sold to a Liverpool buyer, Winter Weather and Lizard Coast; and Kynance two years later. In 1913 he resided at Lower Shiplake, Oxon.
Upon his death in Ruan Minor from a stroke in 1915, the artist was described in the Helston Advertiser and the West Briton as 'a true Bohemian, with a highly developed artistic temperament. Mr Warne Browne loved the sea, and painted it with a sincerity and fidelity which ought to have secured for him a higher place in the world of art'.
The artist exhibited at the Dowdeswell Exhibition of 1890, with the painting Sundown which indicated earlier visits to West Cornwall.
In 1894-1902 he was exhibiting from 5 Pembroke Studios, Kensington, and by 1910 his address was at Palace Gate in the West End of London where he remained until 1917 or after.
Stated by Johnson & Greutzner to be a sporting painter, he is listed as visiting St Ives sometime between 1911 and 1920. No further information currently available.
Born on 7 July 1862 in Nottingham with the name of Anderson Henry, Anderson was his father's forename as well. The artist was a lace manufacturer by trade, and Bednar has noted a Newlyn title listed for him in a mixed exhibition at the RBA. In 1889 at the RA he exhibited A Court in Newlyn, and the following year he showed In sweet September.
His sending-in address to the Paris Salon (1892) was 5 Magdala Road, Nottingham, and he exhibited two paintings that year: Le Soir and a view of Wells-sur-Mer (Norfolk).
He died on 23 August 1920, aged 58, in Nottingham (GRO).
Living at 23 Regent Terrace, Penzance, the artist exhibited locally at NAG in 1937 with Autumn Bunch. Both she and her husband attended the FORBES SCHOOL classes in 1937.
In 1937 the artist exhibited two paintings at NAG The Classic Road to Draughtsmanship and Girlhood, a Portrait. Listed with an address in Edinburgh (1919), his sending-in address became Penzance in 1937.
He is recorded by Green (Hardie 2009 pp77-82) as attending the FORBES SCHOOL with his artist wife, Edith.
Ken Bruce is a landscape painter who lives and works in north Cornwall. In 1988 he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
American-born artist who visited St Ives before 1923 - when a visitor noticed paintings by Bruestle and Richard Hayley LEVER hanging on the walls of a pub. (Tovey 2009, p331) It appears from a survey of internet resources that he specialised in architectural features (barns, brick factories, etc) and figurative subjects. Most titles indicate New England settings (he was born in New York and died in Connecticut), but it is not known how many or what paintings he may have left in Europe after his visit/s.
The artist was born at Eastbourne, coming to West Cornwall because of her friendship with Mornie BIRCH, made while they were both pupils at Badminton House in Clifton, Bristol.
She began her art training at the FORBES SCHOOL in the early 1920s, with the informal tuition of Lamorna BIRCH, and spent time thereafter in Paris. She remained active in Lamorna, St Ives and Newlyn artistic circles until 1955, and lived variously in Paul Village, Newlyn and Truro from 1924-1955. Primarily she painted portraits and landscapes.
Midge also attended painting classes with Harold HARVEY and Ernest PROCTER. Her paintings were signed "Midge" or "Bruford". Dod PROCTER painted several portraits of her (See p189 of A Painter Laureate, Lamorna Birch and his circle, by Austin Wormleighton).
She was the Head of the Liskeard School of Art, founded in 1883, and a frequent exhibitor at the RCPS in Falmouth.
Bruhl was responsible for Cornish Riviera, the GWR railway poster that epitomised the possibilities of this new mode of transport to exotic parts of England in the early 20th Century, alongisde other images depicting the delights of Falmouth and Glorious Devon.
Born in Liverpool, he studied painting at Bradford School of Art, the Slade, and privately with John M Swan in Kensington.
He was part of the St Ives Colony of artist and visitors (1901-10), and was listed as a rate-payer in 1905. However, he is primarily known for north-country landscapes. Reg served in the Armed Forces, WWI, with his home being given as Skipton, Yorkshire. Later his home was at Masham, Yorkshire.
Christine Brunnock, a painter of seascapes, is based in St Ives, where she grew up.
In 2018 she was shortlisted for the Evening Standard Art Prize. She won the ING Discerning Eye Purchase Prize in 2023.
Her work has been widely exhibited, not only in Cornwall but more widely throughout the UK.
Sharon Bruster creates abstract paintings inspired by the spaces between high and low tide. Surface is a key element of her colourful work. Her experimental approach and exploration of surfaces has led her to incorporate a range of materials into her pieces, including ash, sand, marble and slate dust, household filler and plaster of paris. She works from a studio in Padstow.
In 2023 she completed a second year-long professional practice course at Newlyn School of Art. She sells work in a number of galleries in Cornwall.
She is a founder member of artists' collective Ten:22.
In 2023 she and her artist friend Maggie COCHRAN set up Prime Women Artists, a supportive and creative network for women artists of all disciplines in Cornwall.
Andrew Bryant's training as a psychoanalyst informs his art practice, which involves transforming found photographs into monochrome oil paintings. In 2021 he participated in the One Year Mentoring Programme at Newlyn School of Art. He lives and works in Cornwall and his work is in private collections in the UK and abroad.
A marine painter from New South Wales, Bryant arrived in the UK in 1908. He studied with Julius OLSSON in St Ives and exhibited his work created around St Ives scenery at RA (1913-36). A coloured plate of his painting, The Thames at Westminster, is included in Tovey 2009 at p242. He exhibited extensively in London and elsewhere.
In 1917 he became an official artist for the Australian Armed Forces on the Western Front. Following this, he was invited as official artist to the mandated territory of New Guinea in 1923 for the Commonwealth Government. He was also commissioned to paint the US fleet in Sydney Harbour. However, he still came back to St Ives from time to time (elected to STISA 1932), as can be seen in his show record and locally titled works.
Born in Port Adelaide, Australia, she studied at the Adelaide School of Design under H P Gill. She was the wife of the Reverend Reginald Bryant. In the 1924 Show Day at St Ives she exhibited three large oil paintings from Lanhams Art Gallery and was well reviewed: 'the largest is a scene, trees yellowed by autumn, another is a pastoral scene of bringing the harvest home, while the third is a river scene, charming and quaint with white farm buildings among dense green trees.' (St Ives Times)
Annie was successful in exhibiting at the Paris Salon (10), and during the 1930s she offered summer sketching holidays based at her home at Clyst St Lawrence, Exeter.
Bryant is a home-grown artist from West Cornwall, reflecting in his vibrantly coloured abstracts a strong emotional tie to his native environment. He was one of the few fortunate artists who showed their work in the short-lived Hilton Young Gallery on Chapel Street in 2008-9, but has been exhibiting locally in St Ives, Penzance (Rainyday Gallery) and further afield (Bath, Bristol, London, Cambridge, and Holland).
From 1980 through to 2002, his main focus and career was in sculptural green wood-turning, and examples of his work are in prestigious museum collections internationally, from the V&A Museum, the Liverpool Museum & Art Gallery, the Sainsbury Collection to as far afield as Hawaii. The designer David Linley has noted Bryant as being one of the five designers he admires most in the contemporary craft field.
Canadian painter, born in Greenock, Scotland, who visited St Ives between 1901-10, Brymer was a Royal Canadian Academician who gave a sending-in address in Manchester in 1884-5. No further information is currently available about his time in Cornwall.