Sunrise, August Morning, View of the Lake of Albano (near Rome)
Artist
George Loring Brown
(American, 1814-1889)
CultureAmerican
Date1854-55
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall, Frame: 40 5/8 x 58 1/2 x 3 in. (103.2 x 148.6 x 7.6 cm)
Overall: 33 1/2 x 54 in. (85.1 x 137.2 cm)
Overall: 33 1/2 x 54 in. (85.1 x 137.2 cm)
InscribedSigned and dated lower left: G L Brown;
Rome 1854
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.843
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 213
Label TextGeorge Loring Brown American (1814-1889) Sun Rise, August Morning, View of the Lake of Albano (near Rome), 1854-55 Oil on canvas Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.843 Like the many American sculptors who moved to Italy to practice their art, the American landscape painter George Loring Brown lived briefly in Florence and Rome. In 1848, he made the Roman countryside his home. There, surrounded by rich historical and literary allusions from classical myth to the poetry of Lord Byron, he applied himself to an ideal landscape tradition inherited from the 17th-century French master Claude Lorrain-Brown, in fact, earned the nickname "the American Claude." In 1854 the Wall Street banker R.H. Winston saw one of Brown's Italian landscapes and ordered one for himself with "water-group of Peasantry cooking or with a fire…mountains in the background." In response, Brown painted the Chrysler landscape. In the background is Monte Cavo, the highest peak in the Alban Hills, a famous view about fourteen miles southeast of Rome, as seen from a garden at the Pope's summer residence. ProvenanceCommissioned in 1854 for R. H. Winston, Esq., New York; Brodney, Inc., Boston, Mass., ? - 1959; Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., 1959-1971; Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. to the Chrysler Museum of Art, 1971. Exhibition History"Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum," Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Va., March 1 - July 4, 1976. (Exh. cat. no. 101) Published ReferencesThomas W. Leavitt, _George Loring Brown: Landscapes of Europe and America 1834-1880_, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vt., 1973, 14, 43, no. 10. Dennis R. Anderson, _Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum_, exh. cat., Norfolk, Va., 1975, 101. Martha N. Hagood and Jefferson C. Harrison, _American Art at the Chrysler Museum: Selected Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings_ (Norfolk, Va.: Chrysler Museum of Art, 2005), 64-65, no. 33. ISBN: 0-940744-71-6
