Trained as a realist painter with noted Connecticut artist Charles Noel Flagg, he worked for a short period as staff artist for The Hartford Times, and then as an art critic for The Hartford Courant.
Britton was a prolific painter, earning his living for the most part from painting portraits and for his pleasure landscapes, as well as woodblock prints and drawings.
He was also often short of money, which meant that instead of being able to buy new canvases for his work he simply painted over what he happened to have at hand.
As a critic for American Art News, he reviewed contemporary events such as the [Armory Show] of 1913.
Sag Harbor Studio, oil on canvas, 24x36, 1925 (Including portraits of the artist and of his wife Caroline)