Sir John Arnesby Brown

SIR JOHN ARNESBY BROWN RA Nottingham 1866 - 1955 Haddiscoe, Norfolk Best known as a landscapist influenced by the Barbizon School and the Impressionists, Sir John Arnesby Brown occasionally painted portraits and figure studies. Born in Nottingham, he studied at the Nottingham School of Art, and at Herkomer's School at Bushey from 1889-1892. There he met Mia Edwards, an artist known primarily for her portraits of children, whom he married in 1896. They moved to the White House in Haddiscoe, Norfolk, where they spent the summers, whilst the winters were spent at St. Ives, Cornwall until 1910. They then took a home in Chelsea where they spent the winters until Mia's death in 1931. Arnesby Brown exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1890 - 1942, and was elected a Royal Academician in 1915. He had a one-man exhibition at the Leicester Galleries in 1909, a retrospective exhibition at the Norwich Castle Museum in 1935, and was knighted in 1938.