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Birth
1828 (Troy, New York)
Death
1898 (Brooklyn, New York)
Lived/Active
New York/New Jersey
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realist still life, landscape and botanical painting, engraving
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| Along with Martin Johnson Heade, William Mason Brown was among a very elite group of artists equally adept at landscape painting as well as still-life painting. He was born in upstate New York in 1828, in the city of Troy, where he also began his art studies under Thomas Grinnell and later with the portraitist, Abel B. Moore. In 1850, at the age of twenty two, he followed Moore to Newark, NJ, where he continued his art education. After his apprenticeship portraitist period was complete he began (showing 500 of 2965 characters). |
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