Gordon Frederick Browne watercolour illustration of D'Artagnan on horseback, in a country landscape.
Label on back board is inscribed "D'Artagnan setting out to make his fortune" .
Signed with monogram "GB" front lower right
Painted circa 1900.
Likely an illustration for The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Watercolour on coloured paper
Very good overall condition.
Image size; 26cm x 36cm, frame size 39cm x 50cm
Gordon Frederick Browne RI RBA (15 April 1858 – 27 May 1932)
An English artist and children's book illustrator in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
He was born in Banstead, the younger son of notable book illustrator Hablot Knight Browne (who as "Phiz" illustrated books by Charles Dickens). He studied art at the Heatherley School of Fine Art and South Kensington Schools and started to receive professional commissions while still at college.
From the 1880s, Browne was one of Britain's most prolific illustrators, his work appearing in newspapers, magazines and many books by children's authors including Frederic William Farrar, G.A. Henty, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Andrew Lang, Talbot Baines Reed, L. T. Meade, Catherine Christian and E. Nesbit.
Browne worked in watercolour and pen and ink. He waselected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) in 1896 and elected to the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) in1891.
He exhibited works in most of the major national galleries, including 17 works at The Royal Academy, 26 at the Royal Society of British Artists and 132 at The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours.
He died in Richmond, London in 1932.