Live Auction 2078019th Century American Art
JOHN GEORGE BROWN (1831-1913)
Lot 30 Property from the Collection of Martin and Rena Blackman

JOHN GEORGE BROWN (1831-1913)

Sunshine

Closed19 January 2022

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JOHN GEORGE BROWN (1831-1913)
Sunshine
signed and dated 'J.G. Brown/N.Y. 1868.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
30 1⁄4 x 20 in. (76.8 x 50.8 cm.)
Painted in 1868.

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York.
Private collection, acquired from the above, 1979.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the late owners from the above, 1984.

Specialist note

Being an exhibition piece, the present work is larger than many of Brown's work from the period and is probably the painting described by the Art Journal as a scene of a little girl in sunlight that "bathes part of her exquisitely modeled form in a halo of glory." ("Art in Chicago," Art Journal, vol. 2, January 1869, p. 44)