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George Loring Brown

George Loring Brown (1814 - 1889) was active/lived in Massachusetts, New Hampshire.  George Brown is known for Landscape, coastal, figure and allegorical painting.

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George Loring Brown was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1814. After his early education, Brown was apprenticed to wood engravers and illustrators of children’s books, Abel Bowen and his junior partner, Alonzo Hartwell. Both exerted a considerable influence on the young precocious untrained artist.

Bowen, the senior artist, was from New York, born in 1790 at Sand Lake Village, Greenbush, New York. He was a serious and successful graphic artist who established a well-known illustration business in Boston before he hired and trained George Loring Brown as a skilled illustrator and printmaker.

Hartwell was born in Littleton, Massachusetts in 1805. After several years with Bowen, Hartwell opened his own print and lithography business in Boston. During his few years with Bowen and Hartwell, Brown also began to paint popular broad-brushed landscapes of the environs outside of Boston.

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Keywords and Quick Facts for George Loring Brown


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Cartography, Mapmaking, Globes, Topography
  • Children's Book, Juvenile Literature Illustration
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Moving Scenic Panorama Painting, 3-D Diorama
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Allegory, Metaphor, Parable
  • Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
  • Beach Scenes, Bathers, Swimming Genre
  • Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Gardens, Garden Scenes
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
  • Nocturnes, Nightime Scenes
  • Panoramic View and/or Large Scale Panoramic Artwork
  • Portraits, Portraiture
  • Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
  • Romanticism, Idealism, Nostalgia
  • Seascapes, Seasides
  • Townscape, Village Scenes
  • Urban Landscape, Cityscape
  • Wildlife, Wild Animal
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Boston Before 1900
  • Catskill Mountains, New York
  • Europe
  • Expatriate from USA or Canada
  • Hudson River Valley, New York
  • Italy Before World War I
  • Mystic, Connecticut
  • Niagara Falls
  • Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
  • Venice, Italy
  • White Mountains, New Hampshire
Art Association
  • Boston Art Club
Art Teacher
  • Abel Bowen
Chronology
  • Early 19th Century Before Civil War
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
  • Figure Specialty
  • Landscape Specialty
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Vose Galleries, Boston
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Boston Art Club-
  • National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
  • Boston Athenaeum
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
  • Paris Salons

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