Samuel John Milton Brown - Artist

Samuel John Milton Brown was born in Liverpool on April 13th, 1873. Aged fourteen, he was apprenticed to a firm of lithographic artists. Young Sam when not at his desk spent much of his early life exploring Liverpool docks, studying the rigging of the ships that filled the port. These were informative years that gave him the knowledge to be able to put what he saw onto paper. Brown was not entirely self-taught; he studied at the Liverpool School of Art under John Finnie, a well-known engraver and landscape artist.