BROWSE & DARBY
This Cork Street gallery was founded in 1945 by Henry Heinz Roland, Lillian Browse and Gustav Delbanco (1903-1997) and tended to specialise in Expressionist-style figurative paintings and traded under the name of Roland, Browse & Delbanco, one of the most famous names in British post-war art dealing. Gradually the refugee partners died, Roland in 1993 and Delanco in 1997 but had both retired earlier. In 1977 Lilian Browse had gone into partnership with William Darby when the gallery re-opened as Browse & Darby in the same Cork Street premises and Lilian Browse remained a director until 1981. Lilian Browse died in 2005, aged 99, but the gallery still trades as Browse & Darby and in autumn 2023, Browse & Darby opened their new gallery at 34 Bury Street in the heart of St James’s. The gallery has continued to champion figurative painting, mixing contemporary artists from the Euston Road, and Slade Schools: William Menzies Coldstream, Anthony Eyton (1923-), Patrick George, Anthony Fry (1927-2016), and Jeffery Camp, with classic British and French artists, including Walter Richard Sickert, William Nicholson, Matthew Smith, Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, and other Post-Impressionist masters. Other Suffolk artists who exhibited with this Cork Street Gallery include Prunella Clough, Francis Douglas Davison, Fred Dubery, Margaret Green, Henry Holzer and William Powell Wilkins.
Website: https://browseanddarby.co.uk