The Brown Family

Provenance

Eliza Maria and James Brown, New York; given December 1870 to their grandson, James Clifton Brown [d. 1917] and his wife, Amelia Brown, Faygate, England; their son, Howard Clifton Brown [d. 1946], Faygate, England; his daughter, Elizabeth Clifton Brown Calvert, Faygate, England; her sister and brother-in-law, Katherine and Ion Garnett-Orme, Cheriton, England, by about 1950;[1] (Peter H. Davidson & Co., New York), by 1978; purchased 15 November 1978 by NGA. [1] Provenance information provided, 1978, by Peter H. Davidson & Co., and by letter dated 26 June 1992, from Katherine Garnett-Orme and Elizabeth Calvert, in NGA curatorial files.

The Brown Family

Johnson, Eastman

1869

Accession Number

1978.72.1

Medium

oil on paper on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 59 x 72.4 cm (23 1/4 x 28 1/2 in.) | framed: 84.77 × 98.74 × 13.02 cm (33 3/8 × 38 7/8 × 5 1/8 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of David Edward Finley and Margaret Eustis Finley