Battleship in the Mersey, by Samuel John Milton Brown

Artist: Samuel John Milton Brown Description: Signed watercolour, depicting a battleship, believed to be in the Mersey. This is a bit of a rarity for Sam Brown inasmuch as he usually didn’t paint Royal Naval vessels. Perhaps it was a commissioned work! Framed using museum quality glass. Biography: Samuel John Milton Brown was born in Liverpool on April 13th, 1873. Aged fourteen, he was apprenticed to a firm of lithographic artists. Young Sam when not at his desk spent much of his early life exploring Liverpool docks, studying the rigging of the ships that filled the port. These were informative years that gave him the knowledge to be able to put what he saw onto paper. Brown was not entirely self-taught; he studied at the Liverpool School of Art under John Finnie, a well-known engraver and landscape artist. Sam Brown worked mostly with watercolour though there are oil paintings by him to be found. His pencil sketches are also very collectable, being of very high-quality. Brown spent his latter years living in reduced circumstances in Caerwys, North Wales. With failing eyesight he died in 1965. Presented in a washline-mount behind museum quality glass in a gilt frame.