homeopathic chemist, painter and photographer, was born on 10 July 1854 in Norwich, England and was educated at Norwich and Derby. Married in England to Emma, they came to Tasmania in c.1882, where he established a business as a chemist, becoming president and examiner of the Pharmaceutical Society of Tasmania. He died in Launceston on 17 April 1938.
F. Styant Browne (cited without the hyphen) had two oil paintings on show at Dunning the Launceston drapers’ shop in 1884 ( Launceston Examiner 22 November 1884, 2). The following year he showed paintings in Howard Hayward’s Tasmanian Exhibition at Longford and Launceston ( Tasmanian 9 May 1885, 25, 6 June 1885, 20). He conducted an art union with Joshua Higgs at Launceston in 1885; his painting HMS Nelson ('one of his best’) was won by William Costain ( Launceston Examiner 2 July 1885, 2).
Other paintings by F. Styant Browne include:
Two oils on terra cotta – one of bears, the other of horses ( Launceston Examiner 5 September 1885, 2).
Two works on show at W. Joscelyne’s, The Shipwreck and A Close Show ( Launceston Examiner 22 March 1886, 2).
An excellent oil painting of the Berean on show at the Homoepathic Pharmacy, Launceston ( Tasmanian 17 November 1888).
He exhibited oil paintings in the Tasmanian Court at the 1888-89 Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition: Class 1 [Oil paintings] cat.3 – 'At the Mercy of the Waves’ (original), 'S.S. “Pateena”’ – ( Official Record p.565, see card).
Christmas Day in the Bush 1886, watercolour on card initialled 'F.S.B.’ (presumably Styant-Browne) was offered at Deutscher-Menzies’ auction 24 November 1999, lot 115, as 'Artist Unknown’, estimate $600-900.
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- Date written:
- 1999
- Last updated:
- 2011
