Charles Brooke Branwhite - Artist Info

About Charles Brooke Branwhite

  • Biography

    The following biography, written by Cecil Broome, is from the Bristol Savages*, an art association of Bristol, England.

    Born in Bristol on October 4, 1851, Charles Branwhite was the son of Charles Branwhite A.R.W.S. Painting had been the main interest in his family for many years, and his great-grandfather had been a close friend of Thomas Gainsborough.

    Naturally, "Brannie", as he was known at the Wigwam, received very early tuition from his father who, realizing his potential, sent him to study at the South Kensington School of Art*. At the age of twenty-two, he was exhibiting at numerous galleries as a landscape painter in watercolour and oil. Included in these galleries were the Royal Academy of ...

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