11 Facts About Matilda Browne

Matilda Browne was an American Impressionist artist noted for her flower paintings and her farm and cattle scenes.

Matilda Browne was active in Greenwich, Connecticut, New York City, and Old Lyme, Connecticut, where she was affiliated with the art colony centered at the Florence Griswold home.

Matilda Browne was the only woman at the Old Lyme Colony who was taken seriously as a painter by her male colleagues, and she was considered an important member of the Old Lyme group.

Matilda Browne allowed his 9-year old neighbor into his studio to watch him work before inviting her to experiment with paint, brushes and canvas on her own.

Matilda Browne encouraged her to take additional art lessons, and by age 12 one of her paintings of flowers was accepted into an exhibition at the National Academy of Design in New York.

Matilda Browne soon became interested in painting farm animals and traveled with her mother to Europe in 1889 to study with animal painters in France and the Netherlands.

Matilda Browne worked in Greenwich, Connecticut, working at Cos Cob, Connecticut, in the late 1890s, and on and off throughout her career; she worked in Old Lyme, Connecticut, from 1905 to 1906 and periodically from 1911 to 1924.

Matilda Browne later rented a house on Lyme Street in the center of the village, believed to be shown in the background of In the Garden.

Matilda Browne was the only woman to be included in The Fox Chase mural about the art colony that Henry Rankin Poore was painting over the dining room fireplace.

In 1918 Matilda Browne became the second wife of Frederick Van Wyck.

Matilda Browne died in Greenwich, Connecticut, on November 3,1947, at the age of 78.