Amy Browning

Amy Katherine Browning; Amy Dugdale; Amy Katherine Dugdale (31 March 1881 – 27 January 1978) was a British Impressionist painter.

Life Browning was born in Limbury in the Civil Parish of Luton, in 1881. Her childhood residence, Little Bramingham Farm, is now a residential care home in the town.

Her parents, Katherine Lucy and James Day Browning would have eight children and she was the second. Amy's father was a farm bailiff at the time of her birth. On the 1891 Census he is listed as a Farmer. She entered the Royal College of Art in 1899 but had to leave in 1901 as she was eldest unmarried daughter and her mother was pregnant.

She was the favourite student of Gerald Moira when scholarships allowed her to return to the Royal College. Moira would send her upstairs to teach the male student painters. She left the college in 1906. She had become friends with Sylvia Pankhurst and together they created an art exhibition for the Women's Social and Political Union at the Prince's Skating Club in 1909. They remained friends and they worked to raise money for the poor during the First World War. By 1954 she was once again working in Luton, on a series of paintings of the Leslie Jones Ltd hat factory. During this period she lived close by at the home of the company's director, Henry Jenkinson, in Weston, Hertfordshire.

Her great-niece was the actress Joanna Dunham.

Death and legacy Browning died in Letchworth. She has paintings in Musée Baron Gerard, Bayeux, Luton Museum and Art Gallery, Wolverhampton Museum and Art Gallery, Ipswich Museum and Art Gallery, Kelvingrove Museum and the Royal Academy's collection.