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.^[1]

Brown also wrote an early review of Historic Preservation legislation in various European countries ("The Care of Ancient Monuments," 1905).

He was cremated and his ashes interred with his parents at West Norwood Cemetery.

Footnotes

^ Talbot Rice 1949 & Talbot Rice, rev. Pimlott Baker, 2004

Bibliography

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, [1], accessed 23 July 2008

External links

Full-text facsimiles of works by G. B. Brown, including The Arts in Early England at the Internet Archive.

Persondata
Name	Brown, Gerard Baldwin
Alternative names
Short description	British art historian
Date of birth	31 October 1849
Place of birth	London, England
Date of death	12 July 1932
Place of death	Edinburgh, Scotland