William Kellock Brown
Born 1856 (Circa)
Died 20 February 1934
Active: 1887 - 1934
Country of birth and death: Scotland
Sculptor, modeller, metal worker
Born in Glasgow. Date of birth in 1901 Scotland Census given as c.1859 but other sources say 1856. [Parish: Glasgow Barony; ED: 25; Page: 4; Line: 4; Roll CSSCT1901_292; Year: 1901] He was the son of an art metal worker and brother of the painter, Alexander Kellock Brown.
Kellock Brown initially trained with his father, then at the Glasgow School of Art and lastly with Lanteri at the Royal College of Art. After spending some years in London he returned to Glasgow to teach modelling, metal work and repoussé at Glasgow School of Art, c.1888-98. From 1892 he had a lively practice and executed numerous commissions in Glasgow and the west of Scotland.
Kellock Brown was nominated numerous times for Associateship at the Royal Scottish Academy. He died of heart failure in Cambridge Street whilst on his way to his studio to complete a colossal statue of Burns.
Works
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Ju-Jitsu
1924
£120
Study for a figure of St Sebastian
1887 (Circa)
The thresher's weary flinging tree. The lee land day had tired me.
1890
Study
1891
The slinger
1891
Untitled (The thresher's weary flinging tree, The lee lang day had tired me)
1891
Portrait bust
1891 (Circa)
Decorative panel - Melpomene
1892
Eben T. Hoeck
1894
Time & Tide
1895 (Circa)
Dr Ewing Hunter
1895 (Circa)
Dr J. E. Hunter
1897
Gringoire - a balladmonger
1897
Time and tide
1897
Neil Munro, Esq.
1898
Peter Hannay, Esq.
1898
Flora Macdonald
1898
Four-score-and-four
1899
Beatrice
1900 (Circa)
Melody
1901
Dr Ewing Hunter
1901
Mors Janua Vitae
1901
Fourscore and Four
1901
Portrait bust
1901
The late James Reid, Esq.
1903
The late Lord Dean of Guild Reid
1903 (Circa)
A Torso in bronze
1903 (Circa)
The late Mrs Black
1904
Portrait statuette
1904
Old Age
1906 (Circa)
'The thresher's weary flinging-tree the lee-lang day had tired me'
1906
Angling
1907
The bather
1910
Cupid arrested
1911
Study of a boy
1911 (Circa)
Portrait statuette of Lochiel, late chief of Clan Cameron
1911 (Circa)
Carlyle
1915 (Circa)
Sketch Model, Lord Roberts
1915
Worker and Dreamer
1915 (Circa)
Carlyle
1917
George Shelton Esq.
1917
Yvonne
1918
General Maximo Gomez, Liberator of Cuba
1919
Sketch Model for Village War Memorial
1919 (Circa)
The Late David Colville, Esq.
1919 (Circa)
The Scottish Bard
1919 (Circa)
Dr Wm Taylor
1920
Theresa
1923 (Circa)
Ju Jitsu
1923
Arthur Boucher Esq.
1925
Jujitsu
1927
The Cello Player
1927
Professor James Swanson, MA MB
1927
Melody
1929
St Paul
1930
Torso, Carlo Rossi
1931
The late Sir Arthur Bouchier
1933
Four score years and four
1934
Melody
1938
Locations
Address 92 Walton Street London England | View on map
1888 - 1889
Address 138 Wellington Street Glasgow Scotland | View on map
1891 (Circa) - 1901 (Circa)
Address 152 Renfrew Street Glasgow Scotland | View on map
1901 (Circa) - 1934
Also gave 152A Renfrew Street as his address in this period
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Sixty-Eighth, 1894
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Third, 1929
'Melody'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Sixty-Forth, 1890
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Sixty-Fifth, 1891
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Sixty-Sixth, 1892
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Sixty-Ninth, 1895
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Seventy-First, 1897
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Seventy-Second, 1898
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Seventy-Third, 1899
'Four-score-and-four'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Seventy-Fifth, 1901
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Seventy-Sixth, 1902
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Seventy-Seventh, 1903
'The late James Reid, Esq.'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Seventy-Eighth, 1904
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Seventy-Ninth, 1905
'The late Joseph Cowen'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Eighty-First, 1907
'Angling'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Eighty-Second, 1908
'Dreaming the hours away'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Eighty-Fourth, 1910
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Eighty-Fifth, 1911
'Cupid arrested'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-First, 1917
'George Shelton Esq. '
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Second, 1918
'Yvonne'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Third, 1919
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Fourth, 1920
'Dr. Wm Taylor'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Ninth, 1925
'Arthur Boucher Esq.'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-First, 1927
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Fourth, 1930
'St Paul '
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Seventh, 1933
'The late Sir Arthur Bouchier'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Eighth, 1934
Multiple works
Exhibited at First Exhibition of the Society of Scottish Artists, 1892
'Decorative panel - Melpomene'
Exhibited at Twenty-Sixth Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1887
'Study for a figure of St Sebastian'
Exhibited at Thirty-Fourth Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1895
'Time & Tide'
Exhibited at Thirty-Ninth Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1900
'Beatrice'
Exhibited at Forty-Second Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1903
Multiple works
Exhibited at Jubilee Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1911
'Study of a boy'
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Fifty-Fourth Annual Exhibition, 1915
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Fifty-Eighth Annual Exhibition, 1919
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Sixty-Second Annual Exhibition, 1923
'Theresa'
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Sixty-Sixth Annual Exhibition, 1927
'Professor James Swanson, MA MB'
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Seventieth Annual Exhibition, 1931
Multiple works
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1906
Multiple works
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1926
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1887 - 1928
Exhibited 7 times (in 1887, 1893, 1911 and then more regularly between 1923-1928), usually 1 work per year.
Exhibited at International Exhibition, Glasgow, 1901
1901
Exhibited at Palace of Arts Empire Exhibition Scotland, 1938
1938
Taught The Glasgow School of Art: Metal Work, Silver, Brass, Copper and Iron Course, 1845-1913
1893
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1923 - 1934
Died in 1934.
Note that in 1930 Brown's name was removed from the Roll of Members for non-payment of scubscriptions.
Member of Art Workers Guild
1892 - 1911
Resigned.
Member of Scottish Society of Art Workers
1898
Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1909 - 1934
Died in 1934.
Student at The Glasgow School of Art
1867
Personal and Professional Connections
Brother/sibling of Alexander Kellock Brown
Nominated by John Lavery
1898
Nominated by James Guthrie
1901
Nominated by Arthur George Walker
2 November 1908
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors [2 November 1908, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Nominator of Archibald Macfarlane Shannan
1898
RSA
Seconded by George James Frampton
2 November 1908
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors [2 November 1908, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1]
Descriptions of Practice
Listed under Sculptors The Glasgow Post-Office Annual Directory for 1901-1902 Seventy-Fourth Annual Publication
p. 1260
Listed under Sculptors
Listed under Sculptors The Glasgow Post-Office Annual Directory for 1920-1921 Ninety-Third Annual Publication
p. 1441
Listed under Sculptors The Glasgow Post-Office Annual Directory for 1910-1911 Eighty-Third Annual Publication
p. 1392
Occupation given in 1901 Scotland Census
as 'Sculptor'
Sources
1901 Scotland Census
2007
Parish: Glasgow Barony; ED: 25; Page: 4; Line: 4; Roll CSSCT1901_292; Year: 1901
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Nineteenth Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1926
November 1926
p. 83
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twelfth Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1906
September 1906
p. 51 (634)
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1885-1900
1895, p.18.
International Exhibition Glasgow, 1901,
Official Catalogue of the Fine Art Section
1901
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
Palace of Arts
Empire Exhibition
Scotland
1938
The Fine Art Section of the Empire Exhibition
1938
Prospectus of The Glasgow School of Art, Session 1893-94
1893
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
2 November 1908; 21 November 1910; 18 December 1910.
Scottish Society of Art Workers: Constitution & Rules, Minute book
1898
Present at meeting
The Glasgow Post-Office Annual Directory for 1901-1902 Seventy-Fourth Annual Publication
1901
p. 1260
Listed under Sculptors
The Glasgow Post-Office Annual Directory for 1910-1911 Eighty-Third Annual Publication
1910
p. 1392
The Glasgow Post-Office Annual Directory for 1920-1921 Ninety-Third Annual Publication
1920
p. 1441
The Royal Scottish Academy Nomination Book for Associateship, 1897
1897
p. 87, 177
Citing this record
'William Kellock 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_1204205845, accessed 21 Sep 2023]