Painting "Twilight Landscape"

Details

Descriptive Terms

landscapes (representations)
oil paint (paint)
canvas
Painting
Painting

Label

Best known for his paintings of apple orchards in the spring (which earned him the moniker "Apple-blossom" Brown) Newburyport native John Appleton Brown crafted a successful career as an artist. Encouraged by his family at a young age, Brown moved to Boston around 1865 to study art, working under Benjamin Porter and alongside William Morris Hunt and George Inness. The following year he traveled to France to study and there came under the influence of Barbizon painters Corot and Daubigny. According to his contemporaries, his work was characterized by "a studied moderation" that separated it from the Barbizon school. His paintings were "simple, unaffected, close to the everyday heart of nature, never dramatic, stilted, emphatic, rhetorical." They sold well and his annual exhibitions held in Boston were a fixture of the art scene there.

Inscription

"J. Appleton Brown" (Black paint)
"HASTINGS & DAVENPORT / PICTURE FRAMES / 8 Hamilton Place, Boston." (Paper label)

Additional Identification Number

1667.1

Maker

Brown, John Appleton, 1844-1902 (Artist)
Hastings & Davenport (Framer)

Location of Origin

MA

Dimensions

26 3/8 x 30 3/8 x 1 3/4 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Museum Purchase

Accession Number

2017.13.1

Places

Massachusetts (United States)