Playing in the Sand at Southampton Beach

Details

JOHN GEORGE BROWN (1831-1913)
Playing in the Sand at Southampton Beach
signed 'J.G. Brown' (lower left)
oil on canvas
23 ½ x 13 in. (59.7 x 33 cm.)
Painted in 1879-80.

Provenance

The artist.
Estate of the above.
American Art Association, New York, 9-14 February 1914, lot 30, sold by the above.
The Old Print Shop, New York.
Private collection, by 1969.
Private collection, by descent from the above.
Catherine Dail Fine Art, New York, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2010.

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Descriptif du lot

The present work depicts 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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