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Henry William Jennings Brown (7 May 1860 - 4 January 1887) was a Scottish painter.

Life
His father was the artist William Beattie Brown (9 November 1831 - 31 March 1909) from Haddington, East Lothian.

His mother was Esther Love Doig (1839 - 1904) from Perth. They married on 23 December 1858 in Edinburgh.

Henry William Jennings Brown was their first child, born on 7 May 1860 in Edinburgh.

He married Alice Maude M. Baker (c. 1861 - 1937) from India, in 1880 in Lewes, Sussex.

They had 2 sons Henry Lardner Jennings Brown and Laurence Randolph Jennings Brown.

Art
He ran an Art School in Eastbourne.

Death
He died on 4 January 1887 in Stockbridge, Edinburgh, at the residence of his father at 15 St. Bernard's Crescent.

The death certificate states that he suffered from phthisis for a year. Phthisis is an old name for tuberculosis.

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000697/18870108/090/0005