Frederick Brown (artist)

Frederick Brown (14 March 1851, in Chelmsford – 8 January 1941, in Richmond) was a British art teacher and painter.

He later studied at the Académie Julian in Paris[2] in the winter of 1886 with William Bouguereau.

Brown was a founder of the New English Art Club in 1886[4] and author of its constitution.

From 1877 to 1892 he was headmaster of the Westminster School of Art; where his students included Aubrey Beardsley, Henry Tonks, Frederick Pegram and Francis Job Short.

Augustus John, William Orpen, Alfred Garth Jones, Lilian Lancaster, Emily Beatrice Bland, Ethel Carrick,[5] Wyndham Lewis, Eileen Gray and Henry Charles Brewer studied under Brown during his tenure.