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John George Brown
Oil Portrait of Child and Baby Sisters Playing

c. 1870

About the Item

This beautiful oil on canvas painting of two sisters playing by the famous American Artist John G Brown has been lined. There is a slight touch up, and it has been restored by Yost Conservation. This American painter specialized in genre scenes. His parents apprenticed him to the career of glass worker at a young age to dissuade him from pursuing painting. He studied nights at the School of Design in Newcastle-on-Tyne while working as a glass cutter there between 1849 and 1852 and evenings at the Trustees Academy in Edinburgh while working at the Holyrood Glass Works between 1852 and 1853. When he moved to New York City in 1853, he studied with Thomas Seir Cummings at the National Academy of Design where he was elected a National Academician in 1861 where he also became vice president After some encouragement from his father in law, he established a studio in 1860 and, in 1866, he became one of the charter members of the Water-Color Society, of which he was president from 1887 to 1904. Brown became famous for his idealized depictions of street urchins in New York which included bootblacks, street musicians, posy sellers, and newsboys. His art is best characterized as British genre paintings adapted to American subjects. His 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. This is a truly magnificent painting!
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