Brian Shields (1951–1997) was a

Liverpool Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population ...

-born English

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

. He is best known for painting industrial scenes of northern Britain. He acquired the nickname "Braaq" in his school days — on account of his artistic talent he was nicknamed "Braque" after the French artist

Georges Braque Georges Braque ( ; ; 13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th-century List of French artists, French painter, Collage, collagist, Drawing, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most notable contributions were in his alliance with ...

. He held his first exhibition in 1974. In 1977 he was invited to hold four exhibitions in London and at this time was described by ''

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'' as "one of the six most successful artists in England."Braaq (Brian Shields)
The Unicorn Gallery Ltd website. He died of a brain haemorrhage.

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Yorkshire Post - Painting by 'Liverpool Lowry' up for auction
{{DEFAULTSORT:Braaq 1951 births 1997 deaths 20th-century English painters English male painters Painters from Liverpool 20th-century English male artists