Beard and Weil Galleries, Wheaton College
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Museums page for John George Brown ((1831 - 1913)), known for Juvenile-other figure and genre and landscape painting. Showing 45 museum collections and exhibitions.
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1831 Durham, England - 1913 New York City. Known for: Juvenile-other figure and genre and landscape painting.
Born into a poor family in Durham, England, John George Brown earned a reputation as one of 19th-century America's most skilled painters of children, especially entrepreneurial, cheerful street... Read full biography
Born into a poor family in Durham, England, John George Brown earned a reputation as one of 19th-century America's most skilled painters of children, especially entrepreneurial, cheerful street urchins who earned a pittance as boot blacks, newspaper vendors, etc. In some circles, he was dubbed the... Read full biography
Born into a poor family in Durham, England, John George Brown earned a reputation as one of 19th-century America's most skilled painters of children, especially entrepreneurial, cheerful street urchins who earned a pittance as boot blacks, newspaper vendors, etc. In some circles, he was dubbed the "Boot Black Raphael" because of the glowing faces of his child figures and his skill of execution. His paintings of these sympathy-arousing children were so popular in a Victorian era of increased... Read full biography
Born into a poor family in Durham, England, John George Brown earned a reputation as one of 19th-century America's most skilled painters of children, especially entrepreneurial, cheerful street urchins who earned a pittance as boot blacks, newspaper vendors, etc. In some circles, he was dubbed the "Boot Black Raphael" because of the glowing faces of his child figures and his skill of execution. His paintings of these sympathy-arousing children were so popular in a Victorian era of increased industrialization that he became rich from painting sales as well as royalties from lithographs. Brown showed early drawing talent but was discouraged by his lawyer father who insisted that he learned a trade, so he apprenticed for seven years with a... Read full biography
Born into a poor family in Durham, England, John George Brown earned a reputation as one of 19th-century America's most skilled painters of children, especially entrepreneurial, cheerful street urchins who earned a pittance as boot blacks, newspaper vendors, etc. In some circles, he was dubbed the "Boot Black Raphael" because of the glowing faces of his child figures and his skill of execution. His paintings of these sympathy-arousing children were so popular in a Victorian era of increased industrialization that he became rich from painting sales as well as royalties from lithographs. Brown showed early drawing talent but was discouraged by his lawyer father who insisted that he learned a trade, so he apprenticed for seven years with a glass cutter at Newcastle-On-Tyne. He worked at this trade in Edinburgh, Scotland and attended the School of the Royal Scottish Academy under Robe... Read full biography
John George Brown - Artist Info
About John George Brown: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (45)
All MuseumsBirmingham Museum of Art
2000 Rev. Abraham Woods, Jr. Blvd.
Birmingham, AL 35203Butler Institute of American Art
524 Wick Avenue
Youngstown, OH 44502Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080Chrysler Museum of Art
245 West Olney Road
Norfolk, VA 23510Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens
829 Riverside Avenue
Jacksonville, FL 32204Denver Art Museum
100 West 14th Avenue Parkway
Denver, CO 80204Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, FAMSF
50 Hagiwara
Tea Garden Drive-Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA 94118Flint Institute of Arts
1120 East Kearsley Street
Flint, MI 48503George Walter Vincent Smith Museum
21 Edwards Street
Springfield, MA 01103Heckscher Museum of Art
2 Prime Avenue
Huntington, NY 11743High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30309Hudson River Museum
511 Warburton Avenue
Yonkers, NY 10701Hunter Museum of American Art
10 Bluff View
Chattanooga, TN 37403Joslyn Art Museum
2200 Dodge Street
Omaha, NE 68102Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10028Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts
21 Edwards Street
Springfield, MA 01103Montclair Art Museum
3 South Mountain Avenue
Montclair, NJ 07042-1747Munson
310 Genesee Street
Utica, NY 13502Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Paseo del Prado, 8
Madrid, SpainMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1001 Bissonnet
Po Box 6826
Houston, TX 77005Muskegon Museum of Art
296 West Webster
Muskegon, MI 49440New Orleans Museum of Art
One Collins Diboll Circle, City Park
P.O. Box 19123
New Orleans, LA 70124North Carolina Museum of Art
2110 Blue Ridge Road
Mail To 4630 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-4630Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1130 State Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101-2476Sheldon Museum of Art
12th &Amp; R Streets
Lincoln, NE 68588-0300Stark Museum of Art
712 Green Avenue
Orange, TX 77630T.W. Wood Museum
46 Barre Street
Montpelier, VT 05602The Arkell Museum at Canajoharie
2 Erie Boulevard
Canajoharie, NY 13317The Art Museum, Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1018The Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052The Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106-1797The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art
5401 Bay Shore Road
Sarasota, FL 34243The Mariners' Museum and Park
100 Museum Drive
Newport News, VA 23606The Newark Museum of Art
49 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102The Parthenon
Centennial Park
Po Box 196340
Nashville, TN 37219-6340The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102The Toledo Museum of Art
2445 Monroe Street
Box 1013
Toledo, OH 43697The Walters Art Museum
600 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201-5185University of Wyoming Art Museum
Centennial Complex
2111 Willett Drive
Laramie, WY 82071Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
600 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06103-2990Weisman Art Museum
The University of Minnesota
333 East River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
Box 208271
New Haven, CT 06520-8271