# George Loring Brown artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:44:11.139Z
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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1814-02-02
- Death date: 1889-06-25
- Nationality: American
- Movements: Romanticism, Nineteenth-century American landscape painting
- Common media: Painting, Wood engraving, Illustration

## Portrait

![George Loring Brown](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/1891_GeorgeLBrown_Boston.png)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1891_GeorgeLBrown_Boston.png

## About George Loring Brown

George Loring Brown (1814–1889) was an American landscape painter, engraver, and illustrator born in Boston. He initially studied wood engraving under Alonzo Hartwell and worked in illustration before studying painting with Washington Allston. Brown later spent an extended part of his career in Europe, principally in Italy, and became closely associated with Italian landscape and architectural subjects. Collectors may encounter views of Naples, Genoa, Venice, Tivoli, harbors, canals, bays, waterfalls, and river scenery, as well as American subjects including New York, the Hudson, and Niagara. Authority records maintained by Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, and the Library of Congress help distinguish him from similarly named artists. His work belongs to the broader context of nineteenth-century American landscape painting; one secondary source also classifies him with Romanticism. Brown's long engagement with European scenery explains why auction listings may pair his American identity with predominantly Italian subject matter.

## Common works and media

Works encountered under Brown's name may include landscape paintings depicting Italian cities, bays, canals, coastal settings, ruins, waterfalls, and river scenery. Documented titles and authority records point to subjects associated with Genoa, Venice, Naples, Tivoli, the Hudson River, New York Bay, and Niagara Falls. Graphic or illustrative material may also appear because Brown trained in wood engraving and worked as an illustrator, although the supplied auction source does not provide a category breakdown. Each object should therefore be classified by its actual medium and subject rather than assumed to be a painting.

## Market and appraisal context

George Loring Brown's auction record should be assessed through closely comparable works rather than an artist-wide result count. Useful comparisons begin with the work type, date, depicted location, and whether the subject belongs to his Italian or American landscape repertoire. The supplied dataset identifies 170 Appraisily auction records, but this source pack does not include their individual descriptions, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, or realized prices. It therefore cannot support a price range or market-trend claim. A work-specific appraisal should verify attribution and then examine its condition, provenance, restoration history, dimensions, and relationship to documented examples before selecting comparable public sales.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3544381
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500022733
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/58058006/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85198568
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG21064
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.6437.html
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Loring_Brown
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Loring_Brown
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/george-loring-brown/