Details of Sculptor

Surname

Brine

Alternative Surname

First Name

John and sons, of London

Initial of Surname

B

Year of Birth/Baptism

Flourished

1774-1886

Year of Death

Biographical Details

Brine, whose workshop was at 135 Euston Road, was assisted and later succeeded by his sons George and James. He is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery, where he is commemorated with a neo-Greek monument. The family flourished 1774-1866. In 1840 an advertsiement for their ‘marble works by machinery,’ invited the public to view ‘marble chimneypieces, monumental tablets, baths, tables etc’ at their gallery at Burton Crescent on the New Road. ‘The present stock’ it wnet on ‘consists principally of specimens of the finest French, Spanish, and Italian marbles, sculptured in the rich and florid style of Francis I and Louis XIV, now so universally adopted in the fitting up of mansions of the highest class’ (Times, 15 April 1840, 2).
Literary References: Gunnis 1968, 61; Curl 2001, 213; inf Jon Bayliss