Margaret Fitzhugh Browne

1884 - 1972

Born in Boston in 1884, Margaret Fitzhugh Browne studied under Joseph DeCamp at the Massachusetts Normal School (now the Massachusetts College of Art) and with Frank Benson at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She began showing her work in 1915 and was included in the Vose Gallery's First Annual Exhibition of Women Painters of Boston in 1917. In addition to painting and exhibiting she wrote art criticism and the book, Portrait Painting.