biography
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Brown, J(ohn) G(eorge)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1831–1931)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Durham, NE England, UK. He began work in a glassworks, moved to London, emigrated to Brooklyn, New York (1853), and opened a studio in New York City (1860). His genre paintings of street urchins, such as ‘The Card Trick’ (c.1880), made him a wealthy and popular artist. |
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