John George Brown

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

Life

John George Brown studied in England at 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, in which also a native of England miniaturist Thomas Seir Cummings. Cummings was in 1826 one of the founders of the National Academy of the Arts of Design, whose Member John George Brown was elected in 1863 and at the exhibitions he regularly presented his works.

The large audience took special pleasure in her, " detailed real English thoroughness of the cap to the torn shoe " with painted representations of street youth. 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.

Of Brown's works are represented 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.

The Boy Violinist ( 1874 )

Sunshine ( 1879)

A Longshoreman (before 1892)

All Right (ca. 1897)