Thomas Austen Brown (1857-1924) ARSA RI

Born in Edinburgh, Austen Brown was a landscape and genre painter, etcher and woodcut artist, who won several first and second-class medals at print exhibitions in Munich, Dresden, Barcelona and Budapest 1896-1911.

Brown was influenced by the rustic painters of France, namely Jules Bastien Lepage who was interested in the labour of peasant folk and rural traditions. Brown's admiration for French art led him to spend much of his time from 1897 onwards painting in France. He died in 1924.