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Brown, George Loring

painter, was born Feb. 2, 1814, in Boston, Mass.

He spent twenty years in Antwerp, Rome.

Florence, Paris and London, and returned to the United States in 1860, with a high reputation as a landscape painter at home and abroad. Among his more important pictures are The Bay of New York; The *Crown of New England; Venice; Sunset, Genoa; Niagara by Moonlight; Capri; Doge's Palace at Sunset; Sunrise, Venice; and Doge's Palace at Sunrise. He died June 25, 1889, in Boston, Mass.

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