JOHN LEWIS BROWN

"Untitled: Arriving Home", signed lower right, oil on canvas, 47 x 33cm (18 1/2 x 13in); housed in an exceptional antique swept gilt frame, frame outside dimensions 64.8 x 50.8cm (25 1/2 x 20in); please note old repairs to canvas visible verso, condition report available; John Lewis Brown, French, 1829-1890, born in Bordeaux and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts with Camille Roqueplan and Jean-Hilaire Belloc; he is perhaps best known for his paintings of animals, genre and battle scenes, including the American Revolutionary War, the Seven Years' War and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870