Ralph A. Brown

Who was Ralph A. Brown?

Ralph Arthur Brown was a British art dealer and diplomat.

Brown was born in Highbury, London. He was educated at the Wesleyan School in Kentish Town and at Queen Mary, University of London training as a pharmaceutical chemist.

He could not take up his post-graduate studies at Heidelberg University due to the failure of his father's business. Instead he entered the world of Fine Arts. After joining Gooden & Fox of Pall Mall and serving with the British Army in the First World War, he joined the Fine Art & Antiquarian Booksellers, B.F.Stevens & Brown in 1921. B.F.Stevens & Brown was established by Benjamin Franklin Stevens in 1864.