Fine Paintings and Sculpture

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John George Brown (American, 1831-1913)

Daisy
Inscribed and signed “Copyright/J.G. Brown
N.A.” l.l., titled and inscribed, possibly “J.G.
Brown N.A.,” on an unidentified partial label
affixed to the stretcher.
Oil on canvas, 30 1/8 x 20 1/4 in. (76.5 x 51.5
cm), framed.
Condition: Minor retouch, fine craquelure.

N.B. The painting at hand is almost certainly

the work exhibited under this same title at the

Autumn Exhibition at the National Academy of

Design, New York, November 19–December

15, 1888 (cat. no. 362). The work is described

in a New York Times review of the exhibition,

“The Autumn Academy,” (Nov. 19, 1888, p. 4)

as a “smiling girl of ten with hard-painted face,

a bluish dress very nicely wrought, and bare

feet and hands skillfully painted. The sunny

background is nicely painted in.” Copyright

records of the Library of Congress for 1888

list a painting titled Daisy, measuring 30 x

20 inches, registered in December. In the

summer of 1888, Brown was working in the

Catskills, a likely locale for this subject.

We would like to thank Martha Hoppin for

her kind assistance with cataloging this lot.

For more information on the artist, please

consult Martha Hoppin’s book, The World

of J.G. Brown (Chesterfield, Massachusetts:

Chameleon Books, 2010).

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