Gerard Baldwin Brown

Gerard Baldwin Brown (31 October 1849 - 12 July 1932) was a British art historian.

Brown was born in London, the son of church minister James Baldwin Brown and his wife, a sister of the sculptor Henry Leifchild. He studied at Oriel College, Oxford and became a Fellow at Brasenose College in 1874. He became the first holder of the Watson-Gordon Professorship of Fine Art at the University of Edinburgh in 1880 and held the chair until his retirement in 1930.

The six-volume "The Arts in Early England", which he began publishing in 1903 and which still occupied him at his death, has been regarded as Brown's most important work (Talbot Rice 1949 & Talbot Rice, rev. Pimlott Baker, 2004)

References

*D. Talbot Rice, "Brown, Gerard Baldwin", "Dictionary of National Biography" (Supplement, 1949, available online together with new revision by Pimlott Baker, see below)
*D. Talbot Rice, rev. Anne Pimlott Baker, "Brown, Gerard Baldwin", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32110] , accessed 23 July 2008

External links

* [http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Brown%2C%20G.%20Baldwin%20(Gerard%20Baldwin)%2C%201849-1932%22 Full-text facsimiles of works by G. D. Brown, including "The Arts in Early England"] at the Internet Archive.