Henry George
Henry George

George de Forest Brush, 1888

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Henry George
George de Forest Brush, 1888
GEORGE DE FOREST BRUSH (1855-1941)

Portrait of Henry George
signed 'Geo de F Brush' and inscribed with title (lower right)
Painted in 1888

Literature:
N.D. Bowditch, George de Forest Brush: Recollections of a Joyous Painter, Peterborough, New Hampshire, 1970, p. 44.
N.K. Anderson, George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 2008, p. 98 n. 36.

The present work is a study for Brush's portrait of Henry George, the American social reformer and author of Progress and Poverty (see preceding lot). Two known versions of the final portrait are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (1903) and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. (1895).

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