Artist

John Appleton Brown

New England Landscape
Early Summer
Hillside in Summer
A Showery May Morning

American, 1844–1902

John Appleton Brown was an American American Impressionism artist. 5 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Fine Arts Boston. John Appleton Brown was born in West Newbury.

John Appleton Brown (July 12, 1844 – January 18, 1902) was an American landscape painter working largely in pastels and oils, born in West Newbury, Massachusetts. He showed talent at an early age and studied under Emile Lambinet in France. For many years he worked and showed in Boston, summering in his native northeastern Massachusetts and painting his best known lyrical landscapes there.

In 1891 he and his wife, noted artist Agnes Augusta Bartlett Brown, moved to New York City, where he died on January 18, 1902.

Works by John Appleton Brown

Collections represented

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