Henry James Stuart Brown
- Date of birth
- 1871
- Date of death
- 1941
- Notes
- Henry James Stuart Brown was an etcher and watercolour painter. He exhibited at Colnaghi & Co. Galleries, Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, the Royal Academy, the Royal Scottish Academy and the the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours. Except for informal classes in Glasgow, Brown was completely self-taught. He devoted much of his energies as head of the family business and claimed to be an 'amateur' etcher. And although Brown's etchings were published by the major London publishing house of Colnaghi's, they were all printed in very small editions of between 50 and 60 impressions. Brown was a master of "plein air" etching and he carried his copper plates and etching tools outdoors, enabling him to capture the more spontaneous and transitory effects of nature that would often be lost to the artist who took his preparatory drawings back to his etching studio. “King's Lynn” with its wonderful, rapid delineations of water, sky and wind is a masterpiece of this medium. The large majority of Stuart Brown's etchings depict landscapes around Ely, Northumberland, Wells, Wymondham, St. Ives, Rye and King's Lynn. Because of their scarcity, his etchings do not appear frequently on the auction block, but they often command large prices when they do. The British Museum in London houses the largest known collection of Henry Stuart Brown's art with over thirty listed etchings. Source: http://www.artoftheprint.com
Works in the collection
Henry James Stuart Brown
Henry James Stuart Brown