Miss Irene Mary Browne
Born 1882 (Circa)
Died 1943 (Presumed)
Active: 1906 - 1943
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, potter
Born in Islington, London. She studied at Croydon School of Art, Westminster Technical Institute and, between 1906 and 1911, modelling under Charles Hartwell at Chelsea Polytechnic. During her training she obtained a number of commendations and prizes for her drawings and figures.
Browne produced plaster and bronze figures, mainly female, and portraits and first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1908. She took up pottery in 1919, which she learned at Putney School of Art. Within the year she was successfully producing earthenware statuettes that were fired at the Fulham Pottery and in 1927 she bought her own electric kiln. Browne was elected a Member of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers in 1929 and of the Society of Women Artists in 1930.
There are examples of her pottery figures in a number of public collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, Manchester Art Galleries, and at the School of Art Gallery and Museum, Aberystwyth.
Works
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Protected
1911
Locations
Address Chestnuts Mulgrave Road Sutton | View on map
1901 (Circa) - 1909 (Circa)
Studio located at Stamford Bridge Studios Wandon Road London | View on map
1911
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Tenth Annual Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1910
Multiple works
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1909
'Protected'
Exhibited at Jubilee Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1911
'Protected'
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Sculptor' working on own account
Sources
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1909
1909
Cat. No. 249, pp. 26, 69
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
2004
RG13 piece 580 folio 26 page 43
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2009
RG14PN353 RG78PN11 RD3 SD5 ED16 SN139
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Eighty-Fourth Exhibition, 1913 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1913
p. 41 (552)
Citing this record
'Miss Irene Mary Browne', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib5_1210295456, accessed 26 Mar 2023]
