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THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
CATALOGUE OF THE HARRIET LANE JOHNSTON COLLECTION 
Paintings 
Beechey, Sir William. 
Born in Burford, Oxfordshire, England, 1753; died in Hampstead, 1839. 
Became a student of the Royal Academy, London, in 1772. Painted por- 
traits and pictures in Hogarth’s manner for several years in Norwich, after 
which he returned to London, where for a long period he enjoyed unin- 
terrupted favor with the fashionable world. In 1793 he was appointed 
royal portrait painter by Queen Charlotte, whose portrait he executed, 
and became A. R. A. In 1798 he was knighted by King George III for his 
equestrian picture, now at Hampton Court, which represents the King 
reviewing troops in Hyde Park, and the same year he was made R. A. 
PORTRAIT OF MISS MURRAY. 
On canvas, 30 H., 25 W. 
Brown, John Henry. 
Born in Lancaster, Pa., 1818. Painter of miniature portraits on ivory 
and canvas. Self-taught. He began his professional career in 1845 in 
Philadelphia, where he subsequently resided. He was eminently suc- 
cessful and had many distinguished sitters, among whom were James 
Buchanan and Abraham Lincoln. Of the former he painted two por- 
traits, one of which is that named below. Mr. Brown was elected a mem- 
ber of the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts in 1862. He received a 
medal for ivory miniatures at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876. 
MINIATURE OF PRESIDENT BUCHANAN. 
Oil on ivory. Oval; 5 H., W. 
Constable, John. 
Born at East Bergholt, in Suffolk, England, 1776; died in London, 1837. 
Landscape painter, and R. A. The following characterization of Consta- 
ble’s work is from the Illustrated Catalogue of Paintings in the Metropoli- 
tan Museum of Art, 1905: “His style was very broad and powerful, and 
his landscapes are possessed of a noble quality which reveals the beauty 
of English cultivated scenery in the most charming manner, and his land- 
scapes, in which mills, weirs, and dykes are prominent features, often 
glisten with the early morning dew, or, wet with rain, sparkle in the sun- 
light bursting through the storm clouds in the sky. He was both vigor- 
ous and realistic; strong in his originality, yet refined and cultivated in 
his mind. His pictures possess a quality which fill a place unoccupied by 
any other English landscape painter, and they have done much to form 
the style of the modern French landscape school.” 
THE VALLEY FARM. 
One of several copies of the same subject by Constable. 
On canvas, 25 H., 29^ W. 
