Category:William Henry Brown (artist)
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| Date of birth | 1808 Charleston | ||||
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English: William Henry Brown (Charleston, South Carolina, 1808 – 1883, Charleston, South Carolina), American silhouettist. According to The Missouri Review: "Born in 1808 in Charleston, South Carolina, he moved to Philadelphia, where he trained as an engineer. At a young age, he began cutting silhouettes; his first were full-length pieces of famous visitors to the city. He wrote in his book The History of the First Locomotives in America that from his earliest recollections he had a rare talent for cutting out of paper a precise likeness of a person or object with a single glance. He also worked quickly, taking less than five minutes to complete an image. His love of art, coupled with his acumen for paper cutting, eclipsed his interest in engineering, and by the early 1830s he had devoted himself to a career in silhouettes." (The Last Silhouettist: The Artwork of William Henry Brown , The Missouri Review, Volume 39, Number 2, 2016, pp. 97-105.)
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John Moss, 1771-1847 attrib. William Henry Brown (page 136 crop).jpg 456 × 548; 60 KB
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Portrait of a Woman before a Window MET DP140873.jpg 3,146 × 3,807; 3.52 MB
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Silhouette of Horace Greely by William Henry Brown.jpg 700 × 1,024; 58 KB
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Silhouette of Joel Roberts Poinsett by William Henry Brown.jpg 811 × 1,024; 118 KB
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Silhouette of John Marshall by William Henry Brown.jpg 642 × 1,024; 77 KB
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Silhouette of John Randolph of Roanoke by William Henry Brown.jpg 641 × 1,024; 81 KB
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Silhouette portrait of Felix Grundy.jpg 588 × 800; 442 KB
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Silhouette Portrait of John Marshall MET DP819233.jpg 2,733 × 3,714; 2.97 MB
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Silhouette Portrait of John Randolph MET MM9173.jpg 3,195 × 4,000; 2.52 MB
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Silhouette Portrait of Martin Van Buren MET MM10777.jpg 3,043 × 4,000; 3.23 MB
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William henry brown, ritratto di cassius marcellus clay, 1845.jpg 2,032 × 2,176; 2.78 MB
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