Walter Simmons Breene was born in Ireland on May 25, 1884. By the late 1930s Breen had moved to southern California. He worked as a real estate broker before his demise in Los Angeles on June 4, 1951.
Source: Edan Hughes,
"Artists in California, 1786-1940"Death record.
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