Alfred Brown
Born 1825 (Circa)
Active: 1845 - 1881
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, moulder, designer of silverware
Born in St Giles, Cripplegate, London. He was the son of William Brown (born c.1793 in St Giles, Cripplegate), a journeyman brazier. His brother Joseph (born c.1833) was a silver chaser. Brown studied at the Royal Academy Schools in the mid-1840s and won two medals in 1844 and 1845. Between 1845 and 1855 he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and executed a number of significant commissions for designs in silver. Brown lived with his family in east London and then moved to Chelsea before 1871. A decade later he was described as having an 'unsound mind'.
Works
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David before Saul
1851
Locations
Address 26 Harrison Street Regent Square London | View on map
1847 - 1855
Address 4 Red Cross Square Cripplegate London | View on map
1851
Address 43 Jewin Street Cripplegate London | View on map
1860 (Circa) - 1861 (Circa)
Address 17 College Street Chelsea London | View on map
1871 (Circa) - 1881 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Fourth, 1852
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1845 - 1855
Exhibited 10 times (3 times after 1851), 14 works in all
Exhibited at Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations (London), 1851
1851
Descriptions of Practice
Listed under Sculptors Post Office London Directory, 1860 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851
'Moulder'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861
'Artist Sculptor'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
'Sculptor'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
'None' also of 'Unsound Mind'
Sources
A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851
2009
pp. 146-7
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851
2004
HO107 piece 1525 folio 376 page 30
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861
2004
RG09 piece 214 folio 122 page 18
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
2004
RG10 piece 85 folio 14 page 20
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
RG11 piece 83 folio 102 page 3
Post Office London Directory, 1860 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1860
p. 1803
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Fourth, 1852
1852
Citing this record
'Alfred 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=msib7_1206631240, accessed 26 May 2022]
