Biography
Elizabeth Christie Austen-Brown, née Elizabeth Christie (b. UK 1869 - d. England, UK 1942), who married the Scottish artist Thomas Austen-Brown (1857-1924), studied colour woodblock printing with Frank Morley Fletcher (1866-1949) who taught the Japanese woodcut method to Allen Seaby, Mabel Royds, William Giles, Ada Shrimpton amongst others at the Reading School of Art between 1898 and 1906. The Austen-Browns spent much time between London and a studio at the artists’ colony in Camiers, near Etaples in northern France. Many of their works are of French subjects. Elizabeth Austen-Brown exhibited with the Society of Graver-Printmakers in Colour, 1910- 28; the Royal Society of British Artists, 1931, to which she was an elected member; Goupil Gallery, London; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Redfern Gallery, London; the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal Scottish Academy. Her work is held by the Victoria & Albert Museum as well as the British Museum, London.
