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Arch Facial Plast Surg. 2004;6:360.

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New York City street urchins were a prevailing theme in John G. Brown's work, earning him the nickname of Bootblack Raphael. Although not widely known today, Brown was one of the most popular and commercially successful American painters of the late 19th century. Born in England in 1831, he trained as a glass cutter before emigrating in 1853 to Brooklyn, where he pursued a career as a realist genre painter. He opened a studio in Manhattan in 1860, and in 1869 was elected president of the National Academy of Design.

Brown's paintings of the 1860s and 1870s typically depict country youths in humorous scenes, picking berries, throwing snowballs, and playing in the woods. These Civil War–era paintings evoke the 19th century's nostalgia for the bucolic life yielding to the rapid industrialization of American society. Paintings like The Berry Boy and Flower Gatherer recall both William Sidney Mount's paintings of rural . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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