Historical Commission Monthly Tales of Our Town:

This month’s tale concerns landscape painter John Appleton Brown, who depicted West Newbury and its environs in all their natural beauty. Brown's modest West Newbury family identified and promoted his artistic talent and appreciation of nature from an early age. He became a successful artist and prominent member of society who returned to West Newbury in summers to reconnect with and sketch the beauty of his birthplace. In paint and pastels, Appleton Brown captured the gentle hills, open fields, blossom-laden orchards, meandering streams, and marshes of West Newbury and its surrounds in pictures that “make[ ] you think of the happy places that you have seen, and the happy events that have occurred in your summer days….”

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