About Ann Eckert Brown

Ann Eckert Brown has been researching, executing, and teaching eighteenth and nineteenth-century ornamental painting techniques since the 1960s. Included in her restoration commissions is the painted interior of a Gothic Revival chapel in Newport, Rhode Island. Her ornamented furnishings have been widely exhibited, including two solo exhibitions in the 1990s – one featuring the gilded surface and semi-precious faux finishes and the other “Penwork”, a technique developed in Georgian England to replicate Indian Vizagapatam ivory. Her work has been featured in numerous publications including “Yankee” and “Early American Life” which named her a craftsman of the year in 1993.