(28 Feb. 1862-7 Nov. 1948), painter. (Archibald Browne, J. Archibald Browne) Born in Liverpool, England. He came to Canada in 1885, and left business life to become a painter. He was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy 1915. His friends included the Kitchener-area painter Homer Watson. Browne settled at Lancaster, GC, 1927, and spent his later years there, where he continued to paint. Not long after he settled at Lancaster, an exhibition of his paintings was scheduled to be held at the King George Hotel, Cornwall, Ont., 1-3 Dec. 1927. (Glengarry News 25 Nov. 1927) His Glengarry and Cornwall area associates included Mr and Mrs Duncan McLennan, of Ridgewood, Bishop Couturier, and Mary Mack. In 1931 he was foreman of the coroner’s jury in an inquest into the death of a patient at Lovat Hall, the institution for inebriates at Lancaster. (Cornwall Freeholder 8 July 1931 and see Morphy) An exhibit of his paintings at the Cornwall Public Library was announced for 1934. (Standard Freeholder 27 June 1934). The Cornwall Standard-Freeholder of 2 March 1948 announced that Browne had spent his recent birthday in Cornwall General Hospital where he had been a patient for the last three years. He died at Cornwall. He is buried at St. Joseph’s cemetery, Lancaster, but the grave is unmarked. He and Stuart McCormick are the two best remembered GC painters. Browne was married to: (1) Edith Eglin, of Birkenhead, Eng., and (2) Margaret Helen Hughes, of Brooklyn, N.Y, who died in Cornwall 1949.

Standard Freeholder 8 & 11 Nov. 1948 * biographical study by Russell Harper, “Archibald Browne, R.C.A.,” Glengarry Life 1977 * MDict (where the surname is spelled Brown) *Colin S. MacDonald, A Dictionary of Canadian Artists (1967–) * Canadian Art (Catalogue of the National Gallery of Canada), Vol. One: A- F (1988) * obituary of wife SFH 26 May 1949 * Who’s Who 1947 p. 1718 for Sir Alexander Lowe McColl, businessman, married to Browne’s sister Elizabeth * MacGillivray & Ross 524 * Ross, Lancaster, 344 * A. Bridle, Sons of Canada (1917), chapter called “Two Painters of Ontario,” on Homer Watson and Browne * anecdote about Browne and the poet Rupert Brooke in Hector Charlesworth, Candid Chronicles (1925) * recent exhibition of his paintings commended by James Faulds, Cornwall Standard 15 Dec. 1927 * six landscape views stolen from his mailbox probably by tramp Cornwall Standard 7 March 1929 * Toronto Globe report on Browne’s exhibition at Royal York Hotel, Toronto, repr. Cornwall Freeholder 13 Nov. 1929, CS 14 Nov. 1929 * Toronto Mail and Empire interview, repr. CF 23 Nov. 1929, CS 21 Nov. 1929 * another exhibition in Toronto, CF 21 March 1931, CS 19 March 1931 * exhibition in Cornwall of paintings of Miss Beatrice Heward, a student of Browne’s, SFH 13 Dec. 1945 * J. Russell Harper’s letter to editor, Glengarry News 8 June 1977, asking for information on Browne and including brief sketch of his career * two Archibald Browne paintings offered in Williamstown auction sale advert., GN 5 June 1996