Roger Brown is an independent art historian who specialises in researching the work of British artists from the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century who were important in their time, but whose reputations have faded over the years. In 2004 he wrote the first monograph on the artist William Stott of Oldham to accompany an exhibition of his work at the newly opened Gallery Oldham. He taught for a number of years in the Continuing Education department at the University of Reading.