George Loring Brown (February 2, 1814 – June 25, 1889) was an American landscape painter. He was born in

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and first studied

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under

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and worked as an illustrator. He studied painting with

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, but soon went to Europe, residing principally in Italy for years. Brown spent much of his life abroad, and the motives of his pictures are usually Italian, and there is nothing specifically American about them either in treatment or sentiment. Among the best are ''Sunset in Genoa'' (1875), ''Doges' Palace and Grand Canal'', ''Bay of Naples,'' ''Niagara Falls in Moonlight''. ''The Bay of New York'' (1869) was acquired by

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when visiting America as Prince of Wales.

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Image:1839 JosuahRichardsonBigelow byGeorgeLBrown MFABoston.jpeg, Portrait of Joshua Richardson Bigelow, 1839 Image:1856 MotePellegrino Palermo byGeorgeLBrown MFABoston.jpeg, Monte Pellegrino at Palermo, Italy, 1856. Image:George_Loring_Brown_-_View_at_Amalfi,_Bay_of_Salerno.jpg, View at Amalfi, Bay of Salerno, 1857 Image:BostonPublicGarden ca1869 byGeorgeLBrown MFABoston.jpeg, Public Garden, Boston, ca.1869 or after

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WorldCat

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
has works by Brown
American paintings & historical prints from the Middendorf collection
an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Brown (no. 22) *

Sources

Artists from Boston People from Malden, Massachusetts 19th-century American painters American male painters American landscape painters 1814 births 1889 deaths 19th-century American male artists {{US-painter-1810s-stub

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