Irene Mary Browne

Irene Mary F.C. Browne (September 1881 –1977) was a British artist known for her sculptures and pottery.

Irene Mary Browne
BornSeptember 1881
Fulham, London
Died1977 (aged 95–96)
Sussex, England
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
Known forSculpture, pottery

Biography

Browne was born in Fulham in London in September 1881.[1] She attended the Croydon School of Art and the Westminster Technical Institute before studying model making at Chelsea Polytechnic from 1906 to 1911.[2] During her time at Chelsea, Browne won several prizes for her drawing and figure work and had, in 1908, her first work exhibited at the Royal Academy in London.[2] Browne produced figures, medallions and statuettes in bronze and plaster and, after taking a pottery course at the Putney School of Art in 1919, began producing earthenware figures.[3][2] These she had fired at the Fulham Pottery until she eventually bought her own kiln.[2]

Browne continued to exhibit at the Royal Academy and elsewhere, notably in Manchester and Glasgow with the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.[3][1] She was elected a member of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers in 1929 and a member of the Society of Women Artists in 1930.[2] Browne lived at Richmond in Surrey and later in East Sussex where she died in 1977.[4][1] The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Manchester Art Gallery and Aberystwyth University hold examples of her work.[2][5]

References
  1. Sara Gray (2019). British Women Artists. A Biographical Dictionary of 1000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts. Dark River. ISBN 978 1 911121 63 3.
  2. University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII (2011). "Miss Irene Mary Browne". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  3. James Mackay (1977). The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze. Antique Collectors' Club.
  4. Grant M. Waters (1975). Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900–1950. Eastbourne Fine Art.
  5. "Search the Collection;- Figure, Irene M. Browne". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
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