Brown, George Loring, 1814-1889
Printmaker, Illustrator
Size: 3 items.
Summary: A book of pencil and watercolor sketches by George Loring Brown; a diary kept by Mrs. Brown while traveling in Italy with her husband in 1840-1841; and an 1836 issue of PARLEY'S MAGAZINE, New York and Boston, with engravings attributed to George Loring Brown.
Landscape, portrait, and miniature painter, lithographer, etcher, and wood engraver; Mass. Married Harriet Pease in 1835. Traveled in Europe, mainly Italy, 1840-1846.
One of the lenders, Robert Scott, is a descendant of Harriet Pease Brown through the Downes family.
Microfilm reel 498 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
George Loring Brown sketchbook and engravings and Harriet Pease Brown diary, 1836-1841. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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