BROWSE & DARBY

1945 - ?

This Cork Street gallery was founded in 1945 by Heinrich Rosenbaum (Henry Roland) (31 December 1907-4 January 1993), Lillian Gertrude Browse (21 April 1906–2 December 2005) and Gustav Delbanco (7 December 1903-25 January 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 School, and Slade School of Fine Art: Jeffery Camp, William Menzies Coldstream, Anthony Eyton (1923-), Anthony Fry (1927-2016) and Patrick George, with classic British and French artists, including Edgar Degas (19 July 1834–27 September 1917), William Newzam Prior Nicholson (5 February 1872–16 May 1949), François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 1840–17 November 1917), Walter Richard Sickert (31 May 1860–22 January 1942), Matthew Smith (22 October 1879–29 September 1959) 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

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