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George Loring Brown (1814-1889) American, Oil on Canvas, Landscape. Idyllic Italian town view with ruins. Signed and dated lower left. Overall Size: 20 1/4 x 26 in. Sight Size: 13 1/4 x 19 in. Brown was among the most celebrated of American painters living abroad in the 19th century. He was born in Boston, MA, on February 2, 1814, the third of eight children of Loring and Joanna Pratt Brown. As a teenager, Brown began working as an apprentice wood engraver with Alonzo Hartwell and soon took up painting. He forged a relationship with Isaac P. Davis, a member of the Fine Arts Committee of the Boston Anthenaeum, and in 1832 he exhibited six paintings as part of the organization’s sixth exhibition.