Details of Sculptor

Surname

Brown

Alternative Surname

First Name

Richard Rushton, of Manchester

Initial of Surname

B

Year of Birth/Baptism

Flourished

Year of Death

- 1851

Biographical Details

He exhibited at the Liverpool Academy and the Academy of the Liverpool Royal Institution from several addresses in Liverpool and Manchester between 1812 and 1831 and showed five works at the Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Manchester in 1827. He was employed as a modeller by Felix Austin and John Seeley from 1841 until his death.
He can probably be identified with the ‘Brown’ who executed ‘a relief descriptive of the argonauts expedition of 1,263BC ... in a very hard plaster’, which may have been a type of artificial stone. This was for the Great Hall of Francis Goodwin’s Manchester Town Hall (2). This Greek Revival building was erected between 1822 and 1838 and demolished in 1912.
Literary References: Manchester School of Architecture, Sketch-book No. 1, 1915 ( Univ of Liverpool Library, arch. 72.02. M26); Gunnis 1968, 65
Archival References: AGBI, vol 5, 137 (application by Mrs Ellen Brown, 1851); NP/RG