Editing Thomas Browne (section)

== Portraits and influence in the visual arts ==
[[File:Thomas Browne statue.jpg|thumb|Statue of Browne in Norwich]]
The [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]] in London has a contemporary portrait by [[Joan Carlile]] of [[Lady Dorothy Browne and Sir Thomas Browne|Sir Thomas Browne and his wife Dorothy]], probably completed between 1641 and 1650.<ref name="NPG">{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161029073945/https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw00853/Dorothy-Lady-Browne-ne-Mileham-Sir-Thomas-Browne |archive-date=29 October 2016 |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw00853/Dorothy-Lady-Browne-ne-Mileham-Sir-Thomas-Browne |title=Dorothy, Lady Browne (née Mileham); Sir Thomas Browne |work=National Portrait Gallery}}</ref>

More recent sculptural portraits include [[Henry Alfred Pegram]]'s 1905 statue of Sir Thomas contemplating with an urn in Norwich. This statue occupies the central position in the Haymarket beside St Peter Mancroft, not far from the site of his house. Unveiled on 19 October 1905, it was moved from its original position in 1973 and once more in 2023.

* In 1931 the English painter [[Paul Nash (artist)|Paul Nash]] was invited to illustrate a book of his own choice, Nash chose Sir Thomas Browne's ''Urn Burial'' and ''The Garden of Cyrus'', providing the publisher with a set of 32 illustrations to accompany Browne's Discourses. The edition was published in 1932. A pencil drawing by Nash called "Urne Buriall: Teeth, Bones and Hair" is held by Birmingham Museums Trust.

* In 2005 a small standing figure in silver and bronze, commissioned for the 400th anniversary of Browne's birth, was sculpted by Robert Mileham. 

* In 2016 the artists Peter Rodulfo and Mark Burrell elected Browne as honorary ''Great-Grandfather'' of the North Sea Magical Realists art-movement. Simultaneously they realised in painting items taken from Browne's ''[[Musaeum Clausum]]'' in its ''Rarities in Pictures'' section.