45 Years on Cork Street

In 1977 Lillian Browse and William Darby took on the lease of 19 Cork Street in the heart of Mayfair. It was previously the premises of the highly respected partnership, Roland, Browse & Delbanco, who had specialised in 19th and 20th century art since the mid 1940s.

The new gallery opened with a one-man exhibition of ten paintings by the highly acclaimed figurative painter Euan Uglow, who was represented by Browse & Darby until his death in 2000. Browse & Darby has continued to champion figurative painting, mixing contemporary artists from the Euston Road, and Slade Schools: William Coldstream, Anthony Eyton, Patrick George, Anthony Fry, and Jeffrey Camp, with classic British and French artists, including Walter Richard Sickert, William Nicholson, Matthew Smith, Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, and other Post-Impressionist masters.

 

This exhibition presents a broad view of the gallery’s history and taste.