Sir John Alfred Arnesby Brown (29 March 1866 in Nottingham – 16 November 1955 in

Haddiscoe Haddiscoe is a village and civil parish in the South Norfolk Non-metropolitan district, district of Norfolk, England, about southeast of Norwich. The parish is on the county boundary with Suffolk, about west-northwest of Lowestoft. The parish ...

, Norfolk) was an English landscape artist, "one of the leading British landscape artists of the 20th century"'Works of top Nottingham painter to be auctioned'
Nottingham Post, 30 Nov 2010 and best known for his impressionistic depictions of pastoral landscapes, often featuring cattle. Arnesby Brown first studied at the

Nottingham School of Art Founded in 1843, the School of Art & Design at Nottingham Trent University is one of the oldest in the United Kingdom. History In 1836, the Government Select committee (United Kingdom), Select Committee on Art and Manufactures produced a repor ...

in the late 1890s. He has been called "the artist Nottingham forgot", with little remaining reference to him in Nottingham. He later studied at the

Bushey School of Art Bushey is a town in the Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshire in the East of England. It has a population of over 25,000 inhabitants. Bushey Heath is a large neighbourhood south east of Bushey on the boundary with the London Borough of Harrow re ...

in London for four years from 1889. After exhibiting at the

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for the first time in 1890,''Object of the Month – September 2007''
Royal Academy of Arts collections website, retrieved 26 October 2011 he became an elected Associate there in 1903. In 1886 he married Mia Edwards (1870–1931), a painter who studied at Bushey under Sir Hubert von Herkomer. They lived in Norfolk and

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. Arnesby Brown was knighted in 1938. He died in 1955, having not painted since 1942 due to blindness. He is buried in the cemetery of the Parish Church of St Mary in his hometown of

, Norfolk. His brother Eric Brown (1877–1939) was the first director of the National Gallery of Canada, from 1912 till 1939.

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Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections

A listing for Brown's grave
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