Benjamin Brown (artist)

Benjamin Chambers Brown was a wellknown California Impressionist landscape artist. His most notable mediums were oil, lithography and etching.

Benjamin Chambers Brown was born in Marion, Arkansas to Judge Benjamin Chambers Brown and Mary Broker Brown. He was one of their five children. He grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas. His parents wanted him to become a lawyer. Brown was trained as a photographer instead. He studied at the University of Tennessee, and later at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts under Paul Harney and John Fry in 1884. He studied in Paris at the Acadmie Julian under JeanPaul Laurens and JeanJoseph BenjaminConstant in 1890.

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