art teacher, was living at Eaglehawk, Victoria, in 1866 when he requested permission to conduct drawing classes at the nearby Bendigo Mechanics Institute twice a week. The institute’s committee agreed to this in February. Brown’s classes, costing 15s a quarter for youths and a guinea for adults, were the first regular art classes held at the institute. A pencil, watercolour and wash portrait of a colonial gentleman, signed D. Brown and dated 1862, is known.
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