biographie de William Paul BROWN (1825-?)

Birth place: NYC

Addresses: Baltimore and Wash., DC area

Profession: Painter

Work: Chicago Hist. Soc.; Cooper-Hewitt Museum

Comments: Listed as William P. Brown in the 1860 Baltimore Census and as William Paul Brown in the 1856 Baltimore directory. The Census records that William P. Brown (age 35, born in NY) lived with his mother, Harriet (age 62, born in NY), his wife, Clara (age 29, born in Vermont), and one child, Frank (age 1, born in the District of Columbia). Since the Browns were evidently living in the Washington area in 1859, it is possible that William Paul Brown was the same as Paul Brown (see entry), listed as portrait painter in the 1860 Washington and Georgetown Directory. This could also be the same Paul Brown who, in 1881 at Richmond, exhibited several paintings depicting Virginia scenes.

Sources: G&W; Baltimore CD 1856; 8 Census (1860), Md., V, 391; Washington and Georgetown CD 1860. More recently, see McMahan, Artists of Washington, D.C., 28 (listed as [William] Paul Brown).