| Harrison Bird Brown was born in 1831 in Portland, Maine, and is best
known for his White Mountain landscapes and marine paintings of Maine's
Casco Bay. By 1860, Brown was being praised as a leading American
marine painter. Known also as Harry B., Henry B., and some times
mistakenly as Henry Box Brown (Eason), he began an apprenticeship at
age 21 with house and ship painters Forbes and Wilson. He then became a
banner and sign painter, under the name "H. B. Brown, Banner &
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Hudson River School Painters
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