AN ARTIST'S FORTUNE

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 802, 27 April 1910, Page 5

AN ARTIST'S FORTUNE

THE'LATE TOM BEOWNE. Oy Teleeraph—Pre«» Association— Oopyrigh: , April 28, 9.30 p.m.) y London, April 26. The estate of the late Mr. Tom Browne, the black and white iartist, who died in March, is valued at .£18^29./ SELF-TAUGHT ART ISPS SUCCESS. ' Tom Browne- was born in Nottingham and' left school at the age of eleven to work in the Nottingham lace, market. Archdeacon Sinclair, once described him as "the sunniest soul in - Christendom.". He has passed away,in his thirty-ninth year, the same age as his great predecessor in ' comic art, Phil May. ; A born artist, Tom Browne. w&e also self-made. Lessons in art he had practically none. His models were tlie men and women in the streets, their manners and mannerisms his themes: His first studio was a loft above a stable in Not tingham. As a schoolboy he was chastised more than once for filling his elate with comiq pictures of his schoolmaster. As an :errand boy he loitered : to. make chalk drawings on the flagstones. At the age of seventeen he came to London, and in a few years of unremitting work he made his name a household word. Hβ could work as hard as i> stoker, coat off and sleeves rolled up Lite his friend :Hassall, his output was enormous, his rapidity astounding, and his gains great. Possibly- he overworked during his earlier years in London, when comic papers demanded pages ,of -drawings and the Amalgamated. Press .paid L temptingly for them. In recent years his versatility turned to comic postcards, . which took his namo into , every,. home, laughter where it was most, needed. " ...