Details of Sculptor

Surname

Brown

Alternative Surname

First Name

Thomas

Initial of Surname

B

Year of Birth/Baptism

Flourished

Year of Death

Biographical Details

In 1764 Thomas Brown ‘from London’ announced in the New York press that he had ‘open’d a Marble Quarry, in this Government, little inferior to the Italian, out of which will be made Chimney Pieces, Marble Tables, Monuments, Tombs, Head Stones for Graves, &c. in the compleatest Manner, and on the most reasonable Terms’. He also offered lessons in ‘the useful and necessary Arts of Drawing, and Architecture’ at his premises in ‘Water-street, on the upper Side of Peck-slip’ (The New-York Gazette or the Weekly Post-Boy, 30 August 1764). In 1773 he advertised ‘Italian, English, and Irish Marble for Chimney Pieces, &c. &c. To be sold as cheap as can be imported, By Thomas Brown, Marble Cutter, in Chapel-Street. Also Grave Stones and Jersey Stone Chimney Pieces, executed in the neatest manner’ (The New-York Gazette and the Weekly Mercury, 26 July 1773)
Literary References: Gottesman 1938, 228-9