Major Cecil Hew Brown
Born 1868
Died 11 February 1926
Active: 1895 - 1926
Country of birth and death: Scotland
Sculptor, medallist, painter
Born in Ayr, Scotland. He was educated at Harrow School and Exeter College, Oxford. Brown then studied art in London and Paris, he began his career as a painter but then turned to sculpture in the latter 1890s. His primary interest was equestrian sculpture, reflecting his person interest in hunting and riding. He designed a medal for the London International Medical Congress of 1913.
During the First World War he served in the Middlesex Yeomanry and was then transferred to the Royal Army Service Corps because of his knowledge of horses. Brown served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Egypt and Palestine. From 1920 he was art master at Bedford School. His most important commission was the Imperial Camel Corps memorial on Victoria Embankment Gardens which was unveiled on 22 July 1921. He died whilst out hunting with the Oakley Hounds near Keysoe, it is thought he had heart failure.
Wealth at death: £3,839 9s. 11d.
Probate date: 22 March 1926
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
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Moorish powder play
1896
Bull Fight
1900 (Circa)
A Mighty Hunter
1901
The runaway
1905
Shire Horse
1911 (Presumed)
Locations
Address Belvedere Newtown Road Newbury England | View on map
Address Roxboro Park Harrow-on-the-hill England | View on map
1881 (Circa)
Address Heatherton St. John's Road Harrow England | View on map
1895 (Circa) - 1897 (Circa)
Address 10 Harley Road South Hampstead London NW England | View on map
1898 (Circa) - 1900 (Circa)
p. 176
Address 14 St. John's Wood Road London NW England | View on map
1900 (Circa) - 1908
Address 22 Avonmore Road West Kensington London W England | View on map
1919 (Presumed) - 1921 (Presumed)
Address The School Bedford England | View on map
1921 - 1924 (Presumed)
1922, p.26; 1924, p.25.
Address 17 Glebe Road Bedford England | View on map
1926
Died whilst resident at this address
Studio located at 4 Radnor Studios Radnor Street, King's Road London SW3 England | View on map
1923 (Circa)
Listed in Forrer, vol. 7, (1923), p. 124, as a contemporary sculptor and medallist living at this address (presumably in 1923 when the book was published).
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1898
'Tent Pegging'
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Twenty-Third Autumn Exhibition, 1905
'The Bull Fight'
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Fifteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1897
Multiple works
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Seventeenth Autumn Exhibition, 1899
Multiple works
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Twenty-Fourth Autumn Exhibition, 1906
'Tally-ho'
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Twenty-Second Autumn Exhibition, 1904
Multiple works
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Twenty-First Autumn Exhibition, 1903
'A Moorish Falconer'
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Twentieth Autumn Exhibition, 1902
'Coursing at Altcar'
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Nineteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1901
'The Red Badge of Courage'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Seventieth, 1896
'Moorish powder play'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Seventy-Ninth, 1905
'Polo; a near side stroke'
Exhibited at Thirty-Ninth Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1900
'Bull Fight'
Exhibited at Forty-Second Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1903
'Polo; a near side stroke'
Exhibited at Jubilee Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1911
'Shire Horse'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1895 - 1925
Exhibited 18 times, average 1-2 works per year.
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-fifth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1895
1895
Moorish Powder Play (cat. no. 1313, bronze relief, £50).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-eighth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1898
1898
The Fight (cat. no. 1490, not for sale); Dead Beat (cat. no. 1494, bronze group, £15 15s.); Defiance (cat. no. 1496, bronze, £70).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-ninth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1899
1899
Polo (cat. no. 1400, bronze group, £15 15s.); Bull Fight (cat. no. 1420, plaster group, not for sale).
Exhibited at International Exhibition, Glasgow, 1901
1901
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the thirty-first (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1901
1901
Hercules Taming the Mares of Diomede (cat. no. 1571, bronzed plaster group, not for sale); Marlborough (cat. no. 1606, bronze statuette, £22 10s.).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-second (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1902
1902
Death of the Lame Tiger - Kipling's Jungle Stories (cat. no. 1447, not for sale); A Prize Winner (cat. no. 1489, bronze group, £21).
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1923 - 1926
Died in 1926.
Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1909 - 1926
Died in 1926.
Member of Art Workers Guild
February 1920 - 1925
Retired from Guild in 1925.
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominated by James Nesfield Forsyth
4 May 1909
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors [4 May 1909, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Seconded by Henry Alfred Pegram
4 May 1909
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors [4 May 1909, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Descriptions of Practice
Listed as medallist Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume VII, 1923 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as a contemporary sculptor and medallist. Exhibited a case of bronze medals in 1913 at the Royal Academy, London, and three bronze medals at the Paris Salon in 1914. See Forrer, vol. 7, (1923), pp. 124-125.
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Artist (Sculpt)'
Sources
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1920, p.6; 1922, p.26; 1924, p.25; 1926, p.11.
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the thirty-first, 1901 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1901
pp. 47-8
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-eighth, 1898 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1898
pp. 45-48.
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-ninth, 1899 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1899
pp. 48-52.
Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-second, 1902 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1902
pp. 42-47.
Catalogue of the Fifteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1897
1897
Cat. Nos. 416, 432, pp. 43, 44, 47
Catalogue of the Nineteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1901
1901
Cat. No. 277, pp. 48, 51
Catalogue of the Seventeenth Autumn Exhibition, 1899
1899
Cat. Nos. 243, 244, pp. 42, 45
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1898
1898
Cat. Nos. 233, 237, pp. 26, 63
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1900
1900
Cat. No. 178, pp. 25, 70
Catalogue of the Twentieth Autumn Exhibition (Manchester Art Gallery), 1902
1902
Cat. Nos. 240, 244, pp. 42, 43, 45
Catalogue of the Twenty-First Autumn Exhibition, 1903
1903
Cat. No. 291, pp. 47, 50
Catalogue of the Twenty-Fourth Autumn Exhibition, 1906
1906
Cat. No. 258, pp. 46, 52
Catalogue of the Twenty-Second Autumn Exhibition, 1904
1904
Cat. No. 298, pp. 48, 52
Catalogue of the Twenty-Third Autumn Exhibition, 1905
1905
Cat. No. 285, pp. 47, 51
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
Class: RG11; Piece: 1358; Folio: 10; Page: 13; GSU roll: 1341330
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
Class: RG13; Piece: 112; Folio: 27; Page: 46
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Cecil Hew Brown
Probate Date: 22 Mar 1926
Death Date: 11 Feb 1926
Death Place: Bedfordshire, England
Registry: London, England
International Exhibition Glasgow, 1901,
Official Catalogue of the Fine Art Section
1901
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
Public Sculpture of Historic Westminster Public Sculpture of Britain Volume Five
2012
pp. 355-57 and 438
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
4 May 1909.
The British School at Rome: one hundred years
2001
p. 211
The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
2008
News in Brief.
The Times (London, England), Friday, Feb 12, 1926; pg. 14; Issue 44194. (39 words)
Category: News in Brief
Citing this record
'Major Cecil Hew Brown', 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=msib6_1204201791, accessed 23 Sep 2023]
