Charlotte Fitzpatrick Brown

FALMOUTH – Charlotte (Fitzpatrick) Brown, longtime resident of Foreside Road, Falmouth, passed away peacefully surrounded by family on Jan. 27, 2023.

Born in Rio de Janeiro and raised in St. Paul, Minn., Charlotte earned a B.A. in Classics from Radcliffe and subsequently an MFA in Art History. She lived on, and ran an olive farm in Tuscany for several decades, while working for Harvard’s Center for Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence, Italy.

Upon her second marriage, to Fletcher Brown, she moved to Falmouth and became very active in the Portland Museum of Art and the Victoria Mansion, where she was particularly adept at deciphering the iconography of the Italian frescoes throughout the manor. Charlotte was also a keen skier of Sugarloaf and the White Mountains, along with her husband, one of the original founders of Sugarloaf’s ski resort.

Charlotte was predeceased by her parents Kathleen Skinner Fitzpatrick and Philip Wright Fitzpatrick of St. Paul, Minn.; husband, Fletcher Brown of Falmouth; brother, Joseph and sisters Sally Haynes and Phylis Harris; nephew, Philip Fitzpatrick and niece, Robin Soergel.

She is survived by daughter, Kathleen Fitzgerald of Center Conway, N.H., daughter, Sara Arshad of Lincoln, Mass., sons-in-law Michael Fitzgerald and Gulrez Arshad; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren; her stepchildren Christopher Brown, Lindy Brown Hoffman, Montague Brown and Meg Brown Payson, their spouses, children and grandchildren.

A celebration of life will be held in the spring.