Browne & Co (1835–55)
Browne & Co
53 University St, Fitzroy Sq., London; scagliola works (fl.1835–55)
In June 1839, Browne & Co. supplied twenty-two scagliola pedestals with Ravaccione marble bases, costing £264, for the Sculpture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and a lamp candelabra with scagliola columns, illustrated in Loudon's Encyclopaedia, p. 1072. Recorded in the Lord Chamberlain’s accounts 1850-55 as at 33 University Street.
Sources: DEFM; Joy, ‘The Royal Victorian Furniture-Makers, 1837-87’, The Burlington Magazine (November 1969).
The original entry from Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840 can be found at British History Online.