John George Brown
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John George Brown (November 11, 1831 – February 8, 1913) was a British citizen and an American painter who specialized in genre scenes.
Biography
John George Brown was born in
Around 1855, he worked for the owner of the Brooklyn Glass Company as a
His Passing Show (Paris, Salon, 1877) and Street Boys at Play (Paris Exhibition, 1900) are good examples of his popular talent. Brown's art is best characterized as British genre paintings adapted to American subjects. Essentially literary, Brown's paintings are executed with precise detail, but poor in color, and more popular with the general public than with connoisseurs. His paintings were quite popular with wealthy collectors. Many of Brown's paintings were reproduced as lithographs and widely distributed with packaged teas. He also painted some landscapes, just for pleasure.
He died at his home in New York City on February 8, 1913.[5]
Quotes
- Wishing to more faithfully capture his subjects as they appeared in real life, Brown once said, "They will change their dress, as though to show the extent of their wardrobe. Being cautioned expressly on Saturday, and told to return in the same fustian jacket your boy will appear on Monday morning, if he appears at all, in a red woolen shirt. And they are constantly having their hair trimmed--perfect dandies!"[4]
- Brown was trying to capture the spirit of the street children as people who "pull themselves up by their bootstraps."[4]
- Many years later, Brown claimed that most of the street children he painted had grown to become successful businessmen.[4]
- Brown claimed to bobbies, "I do not paint poor boys solely because the public likes such pictures and pays me for them, but because I love the boys myself, for I, too, was once a poor lad like them."
References
- ^ ISBN 0-931394-37-6. Archived from the original on March 14, 2016. Retrieved July 16, 2011.)
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- ^ National Academy Museum and School (2010). "National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts". National Academy. Archived from the original on April 29, 2011. Retrieved June 24, 2011.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-904832-77-5. Archived from the originalon September 10, 2011. Retrieved June 24, 2011.
- ^ "Famous Painter is Dead in New York". San Francisco Chronicle. New York. February 9, 1913. p. 33. Retrieved March 25, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Brown, John George". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.)
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External links
Media related to John George Brown at Wikimedia Commons
- John George Brown at MuseumSyndicate
- Paintings by John George Brown
- John George Brown at Find a Grave
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