BROWTON, Jessie Mabel

1882 - 1971

Jessie Mabel Browton was born at 'Pen Y Bryn', Bushey Grove, Bushey, Hertfordshire on 24 September 1882, only child of James Dudley Browton (April 1845-28 August 1925), a coal merchant, and his wife Hester née Hobbs (1860-1937), who married at Watford, Hertfordshire on 21 December 1881. Jessie studied at Watford School of Science Art and Literature and where she won awards 1896-1905 and where she was an assistant tutor. In 1901, her father was a 51-year-old farm bailiff, living at Park Gate, The Avenue, Bushey with his 42-year-old wife and 18-year-old Jessie, now an art pupil teacher. In 1911, a 28-year-old art teacher, a guest at 26 Severn Street, Leicester, the home of 82-year-old widow Sarah Ann Craven and her 49-year-old daughter but by 1921 was an art mistress living with her parents at St Margaret, Lower Road, Chorleywood, Hertfordshire. In 1939, an art schoolteacher, living at 70 Brockswood Lane, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire with a widowed lady domestic servant after which she moved to Walberswick in Suffolk. Principally known as a figure painter, she exhibited at the Royal Academy and was a member of the Ipswich Art Club 1947-1956 and exhibited from Blythwye Cottage, Walberswick in 1947 two watercolours, 'Bob Cross's Hut, Walberswick' and 'The Old Pier, Walberswick' and in 1949 'November Roses' and a still life 'Iris Stylosa' and was a regular exhibitor up until 1953 when she exhibited two pictures 'The Limestone Platform, Malham, Yorkshire' and 'Green Apples'. A prolific topographical watercolour artist around her home in Suffolk and was also a member of the Southwold Art Circle 1947-1956. Jessie Mabel Browton died at Blythwye Cottage, Walberwick, Southwold, Suffolk on 20 May 1971, she was unmarried. Southwold Museum hold a good collection of her paintings, and holds the 'Browton Diaries', a village journal that she kept for many years, recording both major and minor events.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from 50 Manor Road, Stoke Newington
1933 932 The Knitter - watercolour

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Works by This Artist