John Brown (1887-1966) was a British painter who was educated at Cambridge University, then studied at Westminster School of Art, from 1926 to 1929, alongside the celebrated painter and founder of the Camden Town Group, Walter Bayes. Throughout his professional career, Brown showed at the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Cambrian Academy, as well as the Paris Salon and Lincolnshire Artists Society. He often just signed his work with a simple monogram 'J B'.
The Usher Gallery in Lincoln holds his works: A Break in the Clouds, November Sky and Humberstone Foreshore, all presented by Sir Hickman Bacon during the 1930s. Brown lived at Grimsby, Lincolnshire.
