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THE STATE
July 25, 1936
Garl Browne, Artist
SOME inf cresting fads concern in g lliis clis-
lingiii.sliccl painter who worked for a lime
in North Carolina and whose works are
now eonsidc»red of greal value.
By CAROL RARE
THEBE liiis I-n-ii fliirh general
ami wid.'-pivad interest nbout the
portrait painter, \V. (!arl Browne,
who |<:i in(«*<I i-xtcnsividy in the Caro¬
lina' just prior lo. ami after, tin- War
between I lie States, that I have put to¬
gether the fai'ts eoneernill^ hi' Work ill
this section of the country as supplied
me in. »tly hy readers >.f Tin: Statk.
Mi" Martini llaywond, <>f Raleigh,
says -lie has knowledge «>f Mr. Browne
fr-nii old traditions in and around Ra¬
leigh that have
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told her by the
older generation.
Born in England
According to these W. Oarl Browne
was an Englishman who eaine to Ra¬
leigh around ISflO. lie lived alone in
a small cottage on Newborn Avenue,
and since lie was very reticent little is
known of bis private life, lie lieeatne
very popular with the young
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of
the Capital City, and bis cottage was
the meeting plnpo f.*r a coterie of
people interested in literature and art.
He had an attractive, likeable i>orsnn-
alitv and everybody reinetnliered him
as very uiiicli of a gentleman.
Ili* painted elderly people in Raleigh
on the whole, and among these first
portraits was one ..f William Boylan.
great-grandfather of Miss Martha May-
wood. Charles Bnskerville. of New
York, a nephew of Miss Haywood, who
came into possession of this |Mirtrnit
on the death of his grandmother. Mrs.
( Jorge Snow, and as an artist himself
considers it a very fine piece of art.
lie has it prominently displayed in his
New York studio, and current artists
agree as to its superior workmanship.
After living in Raleigh for some time
Mr. Browne left and many of his friends
U'lieved that he went back to his home
in England.
He returned to Raleigh in tin-
eighties. this time painting the children
of many of his earlier subjects.
Worked at Wake Forest
Mr. Thomas B. Wilder, now an at¬
torney at AU-rdeen. writes me that he
knew Clarl Browne in the Spring of
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