John George Brown
(1831 - 1913)
 

John George Brown was a British citizen and an American painter who specialized in genre scenes.
Brown's art is best characterized as British genre paintings adapted to American subjects. Essentially literary, Brown's paintings are executed with precise detail, but poor in color, and more popular with the general public than with connoisseurs. His paintings were quite popular with wealthy collectors. Many of Brown's paintings were reproduced as lithographs and widely distributed with packaged teas. He also painted some landscapes, just for pleasure.


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Curling;—a Scottish Game, at Central Park
1862
Oil on canvas
50.8 × 111.8 cm.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/50564/curlinga-scottish-game-at-central-park