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Lot 81

John George Brown
(1831-1913)
The Old Folks at Home

26 September – 7 October 2025, 12:00 EDT
Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

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John George Brown (1831-1913)

The Old Folks at Home
signed 'J.G. Brown N.A.' (lower left); with stamps from the J.G. Brown Sale (on the reverse); titled on a handwritten label (affixed to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm)

Footnotes

Provenance
Sale, American Art Association, New York, The Finished Pictures and Studies Left by the Late J.G. Brown, N.A., February 9-10, 1914, lot 113.
Sometime after to a private collection.
Then by descent.

N.B.
John George Brown, one of the most celebrated 19th-century genre painters, was born in Durham, England, and began his career in Edinburgh and then New York City as a glassblower. In 1860 he decided to pursue painting full time and set up a studio in New York. He was one of the founding members of the Watercolor Society and its president from 1887 to 1904, and was the vice president of the National Academy of Design from 1899 to 1904. Brown was particularly well known for his depictions of the New York City youth, including figures such as shoe-shiners, newsboys, and street musicians, and for his genre paintings of charming, storybook-like scenes like the present work.

We would like to thank Martha Hoppin for her kind assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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