{{short description|British sculptor}} {{Use British English|date=November 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = William Kellock Brown | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = William Brown | birth_date = 15 December 1856 | birth_place = Glasgow, Scotland | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1934|2|20|1856|12|15}} | death_place = Glasgow, Scotland | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | residence = | education = | alma_mater = {{ubl|Glasgow School of Art| [[Royal College of Art]]|[[Royal Academy Schools]]}} | known_for = Sculpture | notable_works = | style = | movement = | spouse = | partner = | awards = | elected = | patrons = | memorials = | website = | module = }} '''William Kellock Brown''' (15 December 1856 – 20 February 1934) was a Scottish sculptor prominent in late [[Victorian era|Victorian]] Glasgow, with many public works. His brother was the landscape artist [[Alexander Kellock Brown]]. He exhibited at the [[Royal Academy of Arts|Royal Academy]] and [[Royal Scottish Academy]]. His sculptures are frequently simply initialled WKB. He was commissioned to create several Scottish war memorials in the early 1920s. He received an important commission from [[Glasgow Corporation]] in 1905–06, adding ornament to several public libraries in the city.
==Biography== [[File:Robert Burns the Thresher by William Kellock Brown, 1890.jpg|thumb|''[[Robert Burns]] the Thresher'', 1890]] [[File:Melody by William Kellock Brown 1894, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.jpg|thumb|''Melody'', 1894, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum]] Born William Brown in Glasgow on 15 December 1856 (some sources state 1859) he later adopted the name Kellock, from his mother's family, to distinguish himself from other William Brown's active in the region.<ref name="MacWKB">{{cite web|url=https://mackintosh-architecture.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/name/?nid=BrowWK|title=William Kellock Brown|website=Mackintosh Architecture|publisher=The Hunterian/ University of Glasgow|accessdate=27 November 2020}}</ref> His father was originally a journeyman brass worker in Edinburgh but around 1853 he relocated to Glasgow to become a partner in Kenny & Brown, a firm of art metal workers.<ref name="MacWKB"/>
William Kellock Brown studied at the [[Glasgow School of Art]] from 1867 and later under [[Édouard Lantéri]] at the [[Royal College of Art]] in London and then at the [[Royal Academy Schools]].<ref name="Spalding">{{cite book|author=Frances Spalding|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1990|title=20th Century Painters and Sculptors |author-link=Frances Spalding |isbn=1-85149-106-6}}</ref><ref name=MappingWKB>{{cite web |author=University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib6_1204205845 |title=William Kellock Brown |year=2011|accessdate=27 November 2020|work=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951}}</ref> While studying in London he created decorative balconies for the [[Savoy Hotel]] in 1888 and also exhibited a work in Liverpool.<ref name="MacWKB"/> Later that year he returned to Glasgow, where he taught modelling at the Glasgow School of Art until 1894,<ref name="MacWKB"/> immediately prior to its relocation to the building designed by [[Charles Rennie Mackintosh]].
Throughout the 1890s and 1900s Kellock Brown, working in Glasgow, created portrait busts, figure studies and larger works including a memorial sculpture to [[Thomas Carlyle]] in [[Kelvingrove Park]].<ref name="MacWKB"/> During his career he completed a number of architectural commissions in Glasgow. These included figures for the Athenaeum in Buchanan Street completed in 1893, a series of classical figures for the parapet of the [[People's Palace, Glasgow|People's Palace]] between 1893 and 1898 and the external decoration for six Glasgow Corporation libraries.<ref name="MacWKB"/> Smaller memorials by Kellock Brown, including one to the victims of the [[Titanic Disaster]] in 1912 and a statue of [[David Livingstone]] in 1913, were followed by a number of war memorials after the [[First World War]].<ref name="MacWKB"/>
From 1892 Kellock Brown was a member of the [[Art Workers Guild]] and was associated with the Scottish Society of Art Workers and exhibited works at the [[Royal Scottish Academy]].<ref name="MacWKB"/> In 1898 [[John Lavery]] nominated him as a member in the [[Royal Society of British Sculptors]]. Kellock Brown died of a heart attack in 1934 in Cambridge Street, Glasgow.<ref name=MappingWKB/>
==Selected works== [[File:Head Bowed - geograph.org.uk - 1057799.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Penpont]] war memorial, 1920]] *Ornamental ironwork on the [[Savoy Hotel]] in London (1888) *Statue of [[Robert Burns]] as "The Thresher", [[Kelvingrove Art Gallery]], Glasgow (1890) *Monumental figures on [[J J Burnet]]’s New Athenaeum, 179 [[Buchanan Street]], Glasgow (1892) *John Watson Memorial Fountain, [[Hamilton, South Lanarkshire|Hamilton]] (1893)<ref>{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=LB34512|desc=Cadzow Street/ Muir Street Watson Fountain|cat=C|access-date=24 November 2020}}</ref> *Monumental figures on the Sanitary Chambers, Montrose Street, Glasgow (1895) *Monument to Rev Dr George Stewart Burns, [[Glasgow Cathedral]] (1896) *Monumental figures on the [[People's Palace, Glasgow]] (1898) *Statue of [[Flora MacDonald]] (1898) *Monumental figures on the Castle Chambers, 59–69 Renfield Street, Glasgow (1900) *Entrance pediment, Parkhead Library, Glasgow (1904–1906)<ref>{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=LB33653|desc=64-80 (Even Nos) Tollcross Road and Helenvale Street, Parkhead Library including Public Baths and Washhouse|cat=B|access-date=24 November 2020}}</ref> *Sculpture on [[Woodside, Glasgow|Woodside]] District Library, Glasgow (1905) *Sculpture on [[Govanhill]] District Library, Glasgow (1906) *Sculpture on [[Bridgeton, Glasgow|Bridgeton]] District Library, Glasgow (1906) *Sculpture on [[Dennistoun]] District Library, Glasgow (1906) *Portrait statuette of [[Donald Cameron, 25th Lochiel|Cameron of Lochiel]] (1911) *Cenotaph to John Robertson, [[Glasgow Necropolis]] (1912) *The [[Titanic Disaster]] Memorial, in the former Institute of Engineers and Shipbuilders, Elmbank Crescent, Glasgow (1913) *Statue of [[David Livingstone]], Livingstone Memorial Church, [[Blantyre, South Lanarkshire|Blantyre]] (1913)<ref>{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=LB6589|desc=Glasgow Road, Livingstone Memorial Church including Hall, Boundary Wall and Manse|cat=B|access-date=24 November 2020}}</ref> *Sketch model of [[Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts]] (1915) *Memorial to [[Thomas Carlyle]] in [[Kelvingrove Park]], Glasgow (1916)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=31479&p=0|title=Kelvingrove Park Heritage Trail|publisher=Glasgow City Council|accessdate=24 November 2020|archive-date=31 January 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240131142657/https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=31479&p=0|url-status=dead}}</ref> *Statue of General [[Maximo Gomez]], Liberator of [[Cuba]] (1919) *[[Penpont]] War Memorial (1921)<ref>{{cite web |author=|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/8729 |title=War Memorials Register: Penpont |accessdate= 24 November 2020|work= [[Imperial War Museum]]}}</ref> *[[Kilmaurs]] War Memorial (1921)<ref>{{cite web |author=|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/81559 |title=War Memorials Register: Kilmaurs |accessdate= 24 November 2020|work= Imperial War Museum}}</ref> *Monument to Thomas Andrew Millar, [[Glasgow Necropolis]] (1922) *[[Alyth]] War memorial (1922)<ref>{{cite web |author=|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/44752 |title=War Memorials Register: Alyth WW1 |accessdate= 24 November 2020|work= Imperial War Museum}}</ref><ref>{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=LB4364|desc=Alyth War Memorials Alyth|cat=C|access-date=24 November 2020}}</ref> *[[Inverary]] War Memorial (1922)<ref>{{cite web |author=|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/5969 |title=War Memorials Register: Inveraray |accessdate= 24 November 2020|work= Imperial War Museum}}</ref> *[[Largs]] War Memorial (1922)<ref>{{cite web |author=|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/9758 |title=War Memorials Register: Largs |accessdate= 24 November 2020|work= Imperial War Museum}}</ref> *[[Johnstone]] War Memorial (1924)
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==External links== {{commons category}} *{{Art UK bio}} *{{cite web |url= http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/kellock-brown-67 |title=Kellock Brown 1856–1934 |work=Art, artists and archival materials |publisher=[[Tate]]}} *{{cite web |url= http://www.glasgowsculpture.com/pg_biography.php?sub=brown_wk# |title=William Kellock Brown (1856–1934) |work=Glasgow – City of Sculpture |publisher=Gary Nisbet}}
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