Skip to main contentBiographyManneville Elihu Dearing Brown (M.E.D. Brown) was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1810. When he was seventeen, he went to Boston to study lithography with The Pendletons, a prominent lithography firm. He would eventually open his own lithographic firm in Philadelphia, where he designed and printed lithographs for several publications, including the Floral Magazine, American Journal of Science and Arts, and Cabinet of Natural History. His work was exhibited at the Artist’s Fund Society of Philadelphia and National Academy of Design.
Sometime after 1834, Brown moved to the Utica area and studied portrait painting before departing for Europe in 1839. Ten years later, he returned to upstate New York and worked as a respected portrait painter.
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Manneville Elihu Dearing Brown
American, 1810 - 1896
Sometime after 1834, Brown moved to the Utica area and studied portrait painting before departing for Europe in 1839. Ten years later, he returned to upstate New York and worked as a respected portrait painter.
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