Photograph of Robert Brown, b.1836, Shildon
Inherited from his daughter Helena Brown b. 1876.in Newcastle-on-Tyne.

 I believe that the  William Gowland photo in the Science Museum (thumb-nail below) , and the Robert Brown picture herewith , 

were taken around the time of the S&DR jubilee in 1875.

The Brown portrait is in a cardboard 'Cabinet Portrait' mount, an invention of 1864. He would have been 28 in that year.

Gowland who drove Sans Pariel in the Rainhill Trials would have been 53.

The source Gowland photograph can  be found here :  http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk 

and also in the book, Timothy Hackworth and the Locomotive, by Robert Young, published by The Hackworth Society

in conjunction with The Book Guild Limited, Sussex, England. 

Looking into the studio details---both men appear to wearing similar 3/4 length coats---similar cuffs, lapels, buttoning, etc. 

To have taken Gowland's photo in those days the sponsors must have gone to some trouble, as he

had migrated to Bolton about 30 years earlier (as driver of the re-cycled Sanspareil).

Robert Brown, b.1836 (Photographed c.1875)


Click on the photo, then input "William Gowland" for a larger image.

William Gowland
probably photographed for the S&DR Jubilee September 1875,
 athough he died  aged 65 in that year, registered at Bolton in July 1875.