Biography
Thomas Austen Brown (b. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 1859 - d. Boulogne, France 1924) was a draughtsman, printmaker and painter who studied at the Royal Scottish Academy Schools between 1878-88. He first exhibited Little Nell in the Royal Scottish Academy in 1880 and he was elected an Associate in 1889. He lived London, and from 1897 he painted mainly in France, where he purchased a small property in 1907. He also travelled extensively to Spain, Morocco, Italy, Holland, Belgium, and Germany, besides spending a year in America. He was elected an Associate of La Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Honorary Member of La Société des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, and awarded medals at Budapest, Munich, Dresden, and Barcelona, before settling at Largo, at Blair-Gowrie, and near Stirling. He is represented by important works in the public galleries of Dresden, Mannheim, Brussels, Liége, Ottawa, Toronto, Wellington and Santiago, amongst others.
