Margaret Browne was born in Boston, MA on June 7, 1884. She studied at the Massachusetts Normal School from 1904 to 1909 and one of her teachers was the popular artist Joseph DeCamp. She attended the Boston Museum School in 1909 and 1910 receiving instruction from Edmund Tarbell and Frank Benson. During this period she also received private instruction from the color theorist Albert Munsell and from Richard Andrew.
Her career included all aspects of the art world. In addition to painting, she taught classes at Annisquam, MA, was the art editor of the Boston Evening Transcript in 1919-20 and authored a book "Portrait Painting" in 1933. She served on the Advisory Board of Josephine Logan's Chicago based Society for Sanity in Art, an organization that promoted the retention of traditional values and styles in art.
Her success as an artist was assured, as she became known for her fine portraits, indoor genres and colorful still lifes. She worked in all media and was known for her broad use of color.
Browne was a member of most professional artist's groups of her time including the Guild of Boston Artists, Copley Society, Rockport Art Association and at least 14 others. Her works were included in the exhibitions of most of these organizations and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago. She was the recipient of many awards. Solo exhibitions of her work were held in Boston in 1915, 1917,1926,1938 and 1957. Other one person shows were held in Duxbury, CT in 1916, New York City in 1924, Washington, DC in 1930, portraits at the Boston Art Club in 1936 and at the Newport Art Association in 1950.
Margaret Browne died in Boston in 1972 at the age of 87. In 1974 the Copley Society held a "Memorial Exhibition of Flower Compositions and a Few Portraits by Margaret Fitzhugh Browne."

Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton