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Eric Brown Afternoon Shadows
Darnley Fine Art
for sale €4,095     $4,445
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Eric Brown Afternoon Shadows

1900 - 1920
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Description

Oil on canvas, signed lower left

Image size: 20 1/4 x 16 1/5 inches (51.4 x 41.1 cm)

Handmade contemporary-style frame

Brown was born in 1894 in Salisbury. His father was William Lewis Brown (1864-1922), who became a “portrait painter and artist” around 1906, having previously run a builders’ merchant business.

Eric had an older sister, Dorothy, also an artist (especially watercolours) and a younger brother, Bernard, who became a successful architect in Salisbury.

He also had a daughter, Zoë Napier Brown 1926-2011, who was a good painter though she worked in the field of social services.

Eric Brown always painted in oil views of his local Salisbury; the works have a innocence about them that captures the English countryside perfectly.

Physical Dimensions
Height
41.1cm (16.18")
Width
51.4cm (20.24")
Declaration

Darnley Fine Art has dated this British Landscape Oil Painting to the 1920s.

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SA1226400
Description
Oil on canvas, signed lower left

Image size: 20 1/4 x 16 1/5 inches (51.4 x 41.1 cm)

Handmade contemporary-style frame

Brown was born in 1894 in Salisbury.

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His father was William Lewis Brown (1864-1922), who became a “portrait painter and artist” around 1906, having previously run a builders’ merchant business.
Darnley Fine Art
fig 1. An oil painting depicting a scenic valley with rolling hills in shades of ochre and olive green under a pale blue sky with cloud formations.
fig 1. Eric Brown Afternoon Shadows

Eric had an older sister, Dorothy, also an artist (especially watercolours) and a younger brother, Bernard, who became a successful architect in Salisbury.

He also had a daughter, Zoë Napier Brown 1926-2011, who was a good painter though she worked in the field of social services.

Eric Brown always painted in oil views of his local Salisbury; the works have a innocence about them that captures the English countryside perfectly.

Height
41.1cm (16.18")
Width
51.4cm (20.24")
Date of Manufacture

Darnley Fine Art has dated this British Landscape Oil Painting to the 1920s.

Reference Numbers
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SA1226400
Darnley Fine Art
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Archive I An oil painting depicting a scenic valley with rolling hills in shades of ochre and olive green under a pale blue sky with cloud formations.

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An oil painting depicting a scenic valley with rolling hills in shades of ochre and olive green under a pale blue sky with cloud formations.
Eric Brown Afternoon Shadows
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An oil painting depicting a scenic valley with rolling hills in shades of ochre and olive green under a pale blue sky with cloud formations.
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British landscape art of this era frequently incorporated post-impressionist techniques, emphasizing natural lighting, visible brushwork, and the topography of rural countryside scenes.

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