Gordon Frederick Browne (April 15, 1858 - May 27, 1932) was a British artist and children's book illustrator in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
He was born in Banstead, a young boy from illustrator of the famous book Hablot Knight Browne (who as "Phiz" illustrated by Charles Dickens). He studied art at Heatherley School of Fine Art and South Kensington Schools and began receiving professional commissions while still in college.
From the 1880s, Browne was one of the most prolific illustrators in the UK, his work appeared in newspapers, magazines and many books by children's authors including Frederic William Farrar, G.A. Henty, Juliana Horace Ewing, Andrew Lang, Talbot Baines Reed, L. T. Meade, Catherine Christian and E. Nesbit.
Browne works in watercolors, pens, and inks. He is a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colors (RI) and the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA). Browne was an early member of the Society of Graphic Art and showed three works at their first exhibition in 1921.
He died in Richmond, London in 1932.
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References
- Carpenter, H. and M. Prichard. 1984. The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature , Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York.
- Dalby, Richard. 1991. Golden Age of Children's Book Illustration , Book Gallery, New York. 0-8317-3910-X.
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External links
- Browne Biography (University of Delaware Library)
- Works with Browne (V & amp; A)
- Works by Gordon Browne at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Gordon Browne in the Internet Archive
- Nonsense for someone, anyone or everyone, especially baby-body (Baldwin Library Library Children's History)
- Gordon Browne at the Library of Congress Authorities, with 40 catalog records
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