Franklin Brownell

Franklin Peleg Brownell
Franklin Brownell - Peche sur glace, collines de la Gatineau, 1915
Born	July 27, 1857 New Bedford, Massachusetts
Died	March 13, 1946 Ottawa
Nationality	Canadian
Education	Boston School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Académie Julian
Known for	Painting

Franklin Peleg Brownell (July 27, 1857 – March 13, 1946) born in New Bedford, Massachusetts was a landscape painter, draughtsman and teacher active in Canada.

Brownell studied at the Boston Tufts School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1879 and at the Académie Julian in Paris from 1880 to 1883 under Adolphe William Bouguereau, Tony Robert-Fleury and Léon Bonnat. There he met fellow expatriate and Canadian painter William Brymner. After spending some time in Montreal, Brownell moved to Ottawa in 1886 to take up the position of Headmaster of the Ottawa School of Art until 1900. He accepted the same position as headmaster between 1900 and 1937 with the Women’s Art Association in Ottawa, later renamed the Art Association of Ottawa. Among his students Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Henri Masson and Robert Tait McKenzie.

Brownell was elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1895, and Ontario Society of Artists (1899–1907).

Brownell had painted in the Antilles around 1913 and undertook a number of painting trips to the Gaspé and Gatineau regions of Quebec, to the Algonquin Park and other areas around Ottawa in Ontario. Brownell was a founding member of the Canadian Art Club in Toronto in 1907. Besides landscapes, he also produced portraits, flower studies, marine and genre scenes in oil, watercolour and pastel.