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William Fulton Brown (2 June 1873 - 27 January 1905) was a Scottish artist. He is the brother of Davina Fulton Brown; and the nephew of David Fulton.

Life
His father was James Jenkins Brown (born 4 September 1837), a master grocer. Later he became a pattern maker foreman.

His mother was Margaret Finlay Fulton (born c. 1838). Margaret and James married on 7 October 1861 in Bridgeton, Glasgow. They had six children.

William Fulton Brown was born on 2 June 1873 in Glasgow. Originally the family stayed in Anderston at 21 Houldsworth Street, but they moved to the southside of Glasgow staying at 10 Titwood Place and then 4 Leslie Street in Pollokshields.

His uncle was David Fulton, another artist, he also stayed in those households with the family. Both William and his sister Davina also became artists.

Death
He died on 27 January 1905 in Glasgow in 6 Leslie Street. The cause of death on the death certificate is 'Probably laudanum poisoning'. It is recorded as 'not certified' by a doctor. The window of his death is given as between 8pm to 10pm.

The Aberdeen Press and Journal reported his death on 31 January 1905: A Glasgow artist. The death is announced of Mr. W. Fulton Brown R.S.W. a well known Glasgow artist. Mr. Brown, who was only about thirty years of age, was a regular contributor to the Edinburgh and Glasgow exhibitions for several years and as a watercolourist possessed considerable powers of imaginativeness and originality. He also did some very effective black and white work, among his most recent being the illustrations for 'Mouncey and Others' by Mr. A. Fraser Lovat.

In October 1936 his sister Davina gifted the Glasgow Art Galleries one of their late uncle David Fulton's paintings, the oil painting Seascape. In addition she gifted a painting by William Fulton Brown (1873 - 1905), a watercolour The Prodigal Son.