John George Brown

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The Transit of Venus (1882)
His favorite pet (1906)

John George Brown (born November 11, 1831 in Durham , England , † February 8, 1913 in New York ) was an English-American genre painter .

Life

John George Brown first studied in England with the portrait and still life painter Robert Scott Lauder and the painter, engraver and poet William Bell Scott before he emigrated to America. There he continued his studies in the 1850s with the miniature painter Thomas Seir Cummings , also from England . In 1826, Cummings was one of the founders of the National Academy of Design , of which John George Brown was elected a member ( NA ) in 1863 and at whose exhibitions he regularly presented his works.

The large audience was particularly fond of his depictions of the street youth, which he painted with "real English thoroughness from the hat to the torn shoe". In other subjects , however, he had little success. One of his most famous works was "Heels over Head", which he showed at the world exhibition in Paris in 1900.

Brown's works can be found in the Metropolitan Museum , New York, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC, the Museum Detroit , Michigan, and the Peabody Institute in Baltimore. He also exhibited in Germany.

  • Sleeping angel (1859)

  • The Boy violinist (ca.1874)

  • Sunshine (1879)

  • A Longshoreman (before 1892)

  • All Right (ca.1897)

literature

Web links

Commons : John George Brown  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Edmund von Mach: Brown, John George . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 83 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ a b Brown, John George. In: Hans Vollmer: General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century.
  3. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "B" / Brown, John George NA 1863 ( Memento of the original from August 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on June 15, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
personal data
SURNAME Brown, John George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English-American genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Durham
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1913
Place of death new York