Alexander Kellock Brown lived in Glasgow and was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1878. He was elected to the Royal Scottish Academy in 1908. He showed 121 works at the RSA, 31 at the RA, 125 at the RSW and 115 at the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. He also showed extensively at other prestigious galleries and institutions throughout the UK.