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By the 1870s, his scenes of American childhood became widely reproduced in engravings, securing his commercial success.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBrown’s paintings were exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York, where he became an associate in 1861 and a full academician in 1863. His sentimental yet finely observed genre scenes aligned with the late 19th-century American taste for narrative \u003ca class=\"artist-bio-link\" href=\"\/collections\/realism\"\u003erealism\u003c\/a\u003e, bridging the \u003ca class=\"artist-bio-link\" href=\"\/collections\/hudson-river-school\"\u003eHudson River School\u003c\/a\u003e’s idealism and the \u003ca class=\"artist-bio-link\" href=\"\/collections\/ashcan-school\"\u003eAshcan School\u003c\/a\u003e’s urban focus. 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