During the Second World War she organised exhibitions at the National Gallery, whose collections had been removed to the country for safety.

She wrote a number of monographs on twentieth-century artists, including important works on Walter Sickert and Sir William Nicholson.

In 1909 the family moved to South Africa, where her father had set up as a racehorse trainer, and she was educated at Barnato Park High School, in Johannesburg in the Transvaal.

[3] During the Second World War Browse organised a number of exhibitions at the National Gallery, which was empty as the collections had been removed to Aberystwyth for safety.

In the 1998 Birthday Honours she was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for "services to the visual arts".