Resort · late 19th c.
Harrison Bird Brown
Painter of White Head and the Cliff, engraved for Sargent (1886)
[C]Confirmed1831 – 1915
Summary
Portland-born marine painter. The frontispiece 'White Head' and the interior plate 'Cliff' in Sargent's 1886 sketch are both engraved from Brown's original paintings.
From the sources
Brown's paintings gave the island its earliest widely reproduced visual identity: the pale cliffs of White Head became the standard image of Cushing for a generation of Portland visitors. The Boston Public Library later issued a color linen postcard (#61191) of the same view — the postcard now in the archive of this manual.
Places associated
Images in the archive
- White Head, Cushing's Island, Portland Harbor, Me. · Maine Memory Network #71608
Sources
- [1] Sargent (1886), frontispiece and p. 33.