John George Brown (1831-1913)

British born American painter. Between 1880 and 1910 he painted hundreds of portraits of street children, especially shoe-shine boys (boot-blacks). These boys were portrayed alone or in groups, usually as they passed the time between customers as seen below in "Perfectly Happy.".

	Perfectly Happy		Buy a Posy		Flower Gatherer
	Boy with Snowball		Berry Boy		Miss Gibson
			Winter Games

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