John Lewis Brown - Artist Info

About John Lewis Brown

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John Lewis-Brown
  • Biography

    John Lewis Brown was born in Bordeaux to a Scottish family in 1829. This self-taught artist familiarized himself from childhood with the horses of breed in the property of his parents to Bordeaux. JL Brown learned exactly the anatomy of the horse in a school founded at Haras du Pin. He exhibited at the Salon for the first time in 1848. John Lewis Brown was a socialite and society painter, who became a chronicler of Parisian high society before the war of 1870. John Lewis Brown passed away in 1890.

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