BROWN, GEORGE LORING

BROWN, GEORGE LORING, American artist, born in Boston, 2d February 1814, spent more than twenty years in the art-centres of Europe, and returned to America in 1860 with a high reputation as a landscape-painter. His works include American and Italian landscapes of considerable merit, among the more important being 'The Crown of New England' (1861), purchased by the Prince of Wales; 'Niagara by Moonlight' (1876); and Venetian scenes. He died 25th June 1889.