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Tom Browne, RBA RI RMS (1872-1910)
Tom Browne was born in Nottingham on 8 December 1872 and attended St Mary’s National School. He left at the age of eleven to work in the lace trade. Three years later, he began a seven-year apprenticeship with a firm of lithographers. In 1895, he moved to London where he made his name with the comic strip ‘Weary Willie and Tired Tim’ in the periodicals Chips. Greatly in demand as an illustrator of periodicals and annuals both in Britain and the Uni��ted States, he travelled widely as a special artist for the Graphic.
Introduced to the Langham Sketching Club by Dudley Hardy soon after his arrival in London, he left it to help found the London Sketch Club, and in 1907 acted as its President. He was also a member of the Savage Club. Working in oil and watercolour as well as in pen and ink, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists (1898), the Royal Society of Miniature Painters (1900) and the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colour (1901). He travelled extensively in the Far East, including China and Korea, and on the Continent. He died on 16 March 1910.
