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 *ants, and four others, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; others in Liechtenstein, Czernin, Artaria, and Schönborn Galleries, Vienna, in Schleissheim Gallery in Cologne, Stockholm and Madrid Museums, and in private collections, England.—Allgem. d. Biog., iii. 366; Biog. nat. de Belgique, iv. 826; Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Bode, Studien, 208; Dohme, 1i; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 417; P. Mantz, Adrien Brauwer; Michiels, ix. 156; Schmidt, Das Leben des Malers A. Brouwer (Leipsic, 1873).

BROWN, FORD MADOX, born at Calais, France, of English parents, April 16, 1821. Studied in Bruges Academy, at Ghent, under Van Hanselaer, and in 1837-39 in Antwerp Academy; was in Paris in 1841-44, and in Rome in 1845, in which year he settled in London. Belongs to the realistic school, with a tendency toward Pre-Raphaelitism, though he refused to join the Brotherhood in 1849. Has exhibited but little at the Royal Academy. Works in oil, water-colours, and in fresco. Since 1850 he has been painting a series of frescos (each H. 4 ft. 10 in. × 10 ft. 5 in.) in the Town Hall of Manchester, illustrative of the history of the city. Subjects: The Romans building a Fort at Mancinion ( 60); Baptism at York of Edwin, King of Northumbria (627); Expulsion of the Danes from Manchester (about 910); Establishment of Flemish Weavers in Manchester (1330); William Crabtree observing the Transit of Venus (1639); Defence of Manchester by Bradshaw (1642). Works: Wicklif reading his Translation of the Bible to John of Gaunt (1848); Lear and Cordelia (1849); Pretty Baa-Lambs (1851); Last of England (1852); Chaucer reading at Court of Edward III.; Our Ladye of Good Children; Cordelia's Portion; Ehud and Eglon; Work (1865); Coat of Many Colours (1865); Elijah raising the Widow's Son; Jacopo Foscari; The Entombment; Haydn and Don Juan; Sardanapalus and Myrrha; Romeo and Juliet (1870).—His son, Oliver Madox Brown (1855-1874) was a painter and author of much promise; his daughters, Mrs. W. M. Rossetti and Mrs. F. Hueffer, are also painters.—Portfolio (1870), 81, 119; Scribner's Mag. (1872), iv. 157; Art Journal (1873), 105; (1881), 262; Fraser's Mag., May, 1865, 598; L'Art (1882), iv. 81, 101, 161; Ingram, Biog. of Oliver M. Brown (London, 1883).

BROWN, GEORGE LORING, born in Boston, Mass., Feb. 2, 1814. Landscape painter; pupil of Washington Allston, and in Paris of Eugène Isabey. Visited Europe in 1840 and painted in Antwerp, Florence, Rome, Paris, and London; returned to America in 1860. Studio in Malden. Works: Bay of New York (1860), Crown of New England (1861), Prince of Wales; Venice, Sunset—Genoa, Niagara by Moonlight (1876); Moonlight Scene in Venice (1877); Capri (1878); Doge's Palace at Sunset (1881); Sunrise—Venice (1882); Doge's Palace—Venice (1884); do. at Sunrise (1885).—Art Journal (1880), 370; Zeitsch. f. b. K., vi. 61.

BROWNE, Mme. HENRIETTE, born in Paris, 1829. Maiden name Sophie de Bouteiller; married in 1853 M. Jules Desaux, secretary to Comte Walewski, but adopted the name of Browne from a maternal ancestor. Genre painter; pupil of Chaplin. Medals: 3d class in 1855, 1857, and 1859; 2d class in 1861; 3d class for engraving in 1863. Has sketched in the East and in North Africa. Works: A Brother of the Christian School, Poor School at Aix, Mutual Education, The Rabbits (1855); Puritans, Catechism, Grandmother, The Lesson (1857); Sisters of Charity, The Toilette, A Sister, An Apothecary's (1859); Woman of Eleusis, A Visit, Harem in Constantinople, Woman playing Flute, Consolation (1861); Turkish Child (1864); Celina and her Sister, The Awakening (1868); A Court at Damas, Nubian Dancing Women (1869); The Oranges (1870); Alsace (1872); No Matter, The Medallion (1873); Portraits, Coptic Poet (1874); The Parroquet (1875); The Ducat, A Bibliophile (1876).—Larousse; Stephens, 271.