Details of Sculptor

Surname

Browne & Young

Alternative Surname

First Name

Initial of Surname

B

Year of Birth/Baptism

Flourished

1816-20

Year of Death

Biographical Details

The firm flourished between 1816 and 1820. Gunnis notes that their tablets have delicately carved details, a good example being one commemorating Sir Felton Harvey-Bathurst, 1819, at Egham, Surrey, which has reliefs of the numerous medals and decorations awarded to him during the Napoleonic Wars (4). In 1819 the firm agreed to supply the scagliola columns for the east end of St Pancras Church for £742 (Britton and Pugin I, 1823-1828, 154). In 1818-1820 they were paid £363 for scagliola pillars and pilasters for Lansdowne House, London (Marquess of Lansdowne archives in GPC) and in 1820 they received £23 4s 6d from the 5th Earl of Carlisle for ‘Two Scagliola Verd Antique Pedestals’ (CH, 5th Earl of Carlisle, Private Accounts, J14/81, April-July 1820).
The partnership, based in premises on the New Road, near Euston Square, was dissolved in 1820 and their whole unmanufactured stock, and premises, were auctioned by Messrs Ellis, Squibb and Sons. The partners were named as Messrs Browne and J and R Young. An auction notice reveals an extensive businesss:an assortment of marbles including statuary, dove, vein, entrochal and black and gold, along with British examples such as green and red mona, welsh and Babbicombe marble, and stone from Purbeck, Portland and York. Four horses, a cart and caravan, and the tools of thetrade were sold. The partnership obviously dealt extensively in plaster, as the sale included a 99 year lease on a plot of land with a substantial plaster mill ‘with upright and horizontal stones, machine for sifting etc.’ The sale also included a ‘valuable bust and other moulds’ (Times, 11 December 1820, 4). The Morning Chronicle advertised the leasehold premises as part of bankruptcy proceedings against Joseph Rogers Browne on 26 February 1821 (it is possible that this is the Joseph Browne listed seperately). The same paper reported on 14 March that the scagliola manufactory and marble works had been moved to 33 Carmarthan Square, Tottenham Court Road, and would be continued by Messrs Browne and Co (inf Jon Bayliss).
Literary References: Gunnis 1968, 65
Archival References: GPC