Artist: John George Brown
Medium: Oil on Canva
Creation Year: c. 1870
Dimensions: 12×10 inches
Style: Hudson River School
Period: Late 19th Century
Condition: Excellent
Description: This beautiful oil on canvas painting of two sisters playing by the famous American Artist John G Brown has been lined. There is a slight touch up, and it has been restored by Yost Conservation. This American painter specialized in genre scenes. His parents apprenticed him to the career of glass worker at a young age to dissuade him from pursuing painting. He studied nights at the School of Design in Newcastle-on-Tyne while working as a glass cutter there between 1849 and 1852 and evenings at the Trustees Academy in Edinburgh while working at the Holyrood Glass Works between 1852 and 1853. When he moved to New York City in 1853, he studied with Thomas Seir Cummings at the National Academy of Design where he was elected a National Academician in 1861 where he also became vice president
Artist: John George Brown
Medium: Oil on Canva
Creation Year: c. 1870
Dimensions: 12×10 inches
Style: Hudson River School
Period: Late 19th Century
Condition: Excellent
Description: This beautiful oil on canvas painting of two sisters playing by the famous American Artist John G Brown has been lined. There is a slight touch up, and it has been restored by Yost Conservation. This American painter specialized in genre scenes. His parents apprenticed him to the career of glass worker at a young age to dissuade him from pursuing painting. He studied nights at the School of Design in Newcastle-on-Tyne while working as a glass cutter there between 1849 and 1852 and evenings at the Trustees Academy in Edinburgh while working at the Holyrood Glass Works between 1852 and 1853. When he moved to New York City in 1853, he studied with Thomas Seir Cummings at the National Academy of Design where he was elected a National Academician in 1861 where he also became vice president
