George Elmer Browne was an American

United States

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 artist known in France and Massachusetts.

Biography

Browne was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts

Gloucester, Massachusetts

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 in 1871. He studied in Boston at the Cowles School of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts before completing his education under Jules Lefebvre

Jules Joseph Lefebvre

Jules Joseph Lefebvre was a French figure painter.Lefebvre entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1852 and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet. He won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1861. Between 1855 and 1898, he exhibited 72 portraits in the Paris Salon...

 and Tony Robert-Fleury

Tony Robert-Fleury

Tony Robert-Fleury was a French painter.He was born just outside Paris, and studied under his father Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury and under Delaroche and Léon Cogniet....

 in Paris. He founded the West End School of Art at his summer home in Provincetown in 1916 at the tip of Cape Cod

Cape Cod

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 far away from his studio in New York. The group was influenced by the impressionists and was among five schools in the town. Browne was very well regarded in France and became a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Browne has work in Provincetown Museum.

Browne died in Provincetown in 1946.