A Painter's progress the life, work, and travels of Harrison B. Brown of Portland, Maine/ compiled by Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.

Title:

A Painter's progress the life, work, and travels of Harrison B. Brown of Portland, Maine/ compiled by Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.

Author:

Shettleworth, Earle G., Jr.

Call Number:

759.13 B877hb v.1

Publication Information:

Portland, M.E. : Phoenix Press, 2005.

Physical Description:

103 p.; 28 cm.

Description:

For four decades in the second half of the nineteenth century, Harrison Bird Brown (1831-1915) was the most prolific professional landscape artist in Portland, Maine. Drawing his subject matter principally from local marine and pastoral scenes, Brown also traveled to Mount Desert, Grand Manan, the White Mountains, and Europe in search of inspiration for his highly accomplished oil paintings. Since their rediscovery in the 1960s, Brown's pictures have been sought by both collectors and museums. Harrison Brown left no journals and few letters to document his career. however his long friendship with Edward H. Elwell, the editor of the weekly Portland Transcript, resulted in the newspaper frequently reporting Browns's activities over a forty year period. Elwell's articles, presented here for the first time, form a richly detailed chronicle of the life, work, and travels of one of Maines major nineteenth century landscape painters. The compiler, Eale G. Shettleworth, Jr., has been the director of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission since 1976 and was appointed by Governor Baldacci in 2004 to serve as state Historian.

Subjects:

Portland, M.E. , Landscape painters.

Locations:

Portland, M.E.

People:

Brown, Harrison Bird, 1831-1915.

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Credit Line:

New Hampshire Historical Society Collection;