Making Castles of Sand

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JOHN GEORGE BROWN (1831-1913)
Making Castles of Sand
signed 'J.G. Brown N.A.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
20 x 14 in. (50.8 x 35.6 cm.)
Painted circa 1878-79.

Provenance

The artist.
(Possibly) Estate of the above.
(Possibly) American Art Association, New York, 9-10 February 1914, lot 81, sold by the above.
(Possibly) Charles E. Heyman, acquired from the above.
William and Lucille Markoe, New Rochelle, New York, by 1956.
By descent to the present owner from the above.

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Lot Essay

The present work may depict the artist's young three or four-year-old daughter Mabel on the beach at Southampton, New York. J.G. Brown depicts a similar vertical vista of the shore in Waiting for William (1879, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia), which features a young woman in the place of the child seen in the present work.

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