Gordon Browne, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gordon Browne

English artist and children's book illustrator

Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1858

Place of Birth: Banstead, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 27-May-1932

Profession: illustrator, painter

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Gordon Frederick Browne (15 April 1858 – 27 May 1932) was an English artist and children's book illustrator in the late 19th century and early 20th century. He was born in Banstead, the younger son of notable book illustrator Hablot Knight Browne (who as "Phiz" illustrated books by Charles Dickens).
He studied art at the Heatherley School of Fine Art and South Kensington Schools and started to receive professional commissions while still at college. From the 1880s, Browne was one of Britain's most prolific illustrators, his work appearing in newspapers, magazines and many books by children's authors including Frederic William Farrar, G.A.
Henty, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Andrew Lang, Talbot Baines Reed, L.
T.
Meade, Catherine Christian and E.
Nesbit. Browne worked in watercolour and pen and ink.
He was a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (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.