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GEORGE DE FOREST BRUSH (1855– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 692 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE DE See also:FOREST See also:BRUSH (1855– )  , See also:American painter, was See also:born at See also:Shelbyville, See also:Tennessee, on the 28th of See also:September 1855 . He was a See also:pupil of J . L . Gerbme at See also:Paris, and became a member of the See also:National See also:Academy of See also:Design, New See also:York . From 1883 onwards, he attracted much See also:attention by his paintings of See also:North American See also:Indians, his " See also:Moose See also:Hunt," Aztec See also:King " and " See also:Mourning her Brave " achieving See also:great popularity and showing the strong See also:influence of Gerbme . These were followed by picture portraits, particularly of See also:mother and See also:child, largely' suggestive of the See also:work of the Dutch, Flemish and See also:German masters, carefully arranged as to See also:line and See also:mass, and worked out in great detail with consummate technical skill . Several of his paintings have for subject his own See also:children and his wife; one of these is in the See also:Boston Museum of See also:Fine Arts .

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