Arthur Briscoe

British (1873-1943)

Born in Birkenhead, England in 1873, artist Arthur John Trevor Briscoe studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London under artists Henry Tonks and Frederick Brown and later at the Académie Julian in Paris. Briscoe’s first one-man show took place at the Modern Gallery on Bond Street in 1906 and included thirty five of his watercolors. He also exhibited at the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Royal Academy, Royal Society of British Artists, Fine Art Society, New English Art Club, Liverpool Walker Art Gallery, Connell & Sons Gallery, Royal Society of Painter, Etchers & Engravers, Redfern Gallery and the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour, among others.

In 1922, Briscoe was invited to join the crew of a Polish sail-training ship on a journey from Rotherhithe to Genoa. He sketched every aspect of life on the ship and once home, worked with a publisher to print editions of his etchings.

Briscoe’s works are held in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cleveland Museum of Art, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Missouri and the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, UK.