GEORGE LORING BROWN
(American, 1814-1889)
SUN RISE VENICE, WITH SANTA MARIA DELLA SALUTE
Oil on Canvas mounted onto Board
22 x 36 Inches
Signed on Reverse

George Loring Brown was first apprenticed to the wood engraver, Abel Bowen. He subsequently studied with Eugene Isabey in Paris (1832) and later in Rome and Florence. Brown became a regular exhibitor at the Boston Athenaeum, painting in the Classical Romantic style of which he would become the most notable American exponent. He used precise brushstrokes and relatively thick paint and introduced from Europe a method known as "Macchiorelli," an impressionist style of painting in patches of color to emphasize the effects of light and dark. He was among the most celebrated of American painters working abroad in the 19th century and was widely known as "Claude" Brown for the French landscape painter Claude Lorraine, whose handling of light he was considered to rival. He exhibited widely in Europe and the United States and was rewarded with both success and fame in his lifetime. His works were collected by the crowned heads of Europe and may be found in the permanent collections of most major American museums. We are pleased to offer this subtle and lyrical view of La Serenissima, a city which the artist painted in her many moods and to which he repeatedly returned for inspiration.

Reference:

Mallett’s Index of Artists, p.55; Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers, Mantle Fielding, p.115; Davenport’s Art Reference Guide, 2003/4 Edition, p.361; Who Was Who in American Art, Falk, Vol. I, p.464; Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Vol. 2, p.856; American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, Fink, p.326; et al.