Mather Brown

Mather Brown 1761-1831, American portrait and historical painter, b. Boston. He studied under Benjamin West in London and continued to work in England. His portraits include those of George IV (Buckingham Palace, London), Queen Charlotte, Sir William Pepperrell, Cornwallis, and Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; a self-portrait belongs to the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass. Marquis Cornwallis Receiving as Hostages the Sons of Tippo Sahib is his best-known historical work.

Brown, Mather (b Boston, 7 Oct. 1761; d London, 25 May 1831). American painter who settled in England in 1781. He had lessons from Gilbert Stuart as a boy and studied with Benjamin West in London. Initially he had great success as a portraitist, especially with American visitors to England, but later he became obsessed with painting grandiose historical and religious pictures that proved unsaleable and he died in poverty.