In the history of art, Hablot Knight Browne is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Hablot Knight Browne as British artist (1815-1882).
Hablot Knight Browne was born at Lambeth in 1815. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as caricaturist, illustrator and painter.
Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in United Kingdom shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Hablot Knight Browne died in 1882, aged 67. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
