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Surname	Brown	Alternative Surname
First Name	J, of London	Initial of Surname	B
Year of Birth/Baptism		Flourished	1830? - 1857
Year of Death
Biographical Details	A sculptor called J Brown (or Browne) exhibited a group of Caractacus before Claudius at the Westminster Hall Exhibition of 1844 (17). One critic considered it ‘abominally bad’ and advised the artist to ‘break the whole thing up’ (Lit Gaz, 1844, cited by Gunnis 1968, 64). He may have been responsible for a number of monuments and tablets signed either ‘J Brown’ or ‘J Browne’, including a large gothic monument with standing figures of Hope and Charity commemorating Philip Saltmarshe at Howden, Yorkshire (12). It is not clear whether he was connected with Joseph Browne. Literary References: Gunnis 1968, 64