BRUSH, GEORGE DE FOREST ), American painter, was born at Shelbyville (Tenn.), on Sept. 28, 1855. He was a pupil of J. L. Gerome at Paris, and became a member of the National Academy of Design, New York, and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. From 1883 onwards, he attracted much attention by his paintings of North American Indians, his "Moose Hunt," "Aztec King" and "Mourning her Brave" achiev ing great popularity and showing the strong influence of Gerome. These were followed by picture portraits, particularly of mother and child, largely suggestive of the work of the Dutch, Flemish and German masters, carefully arranged as to line and mass, and worked out in great detail with consummate technical skill. Sev eral of his paintings have for subject his own children and his wife; one of these is in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. His "In a Garden" is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York city, "Mothers and Children" in the Pennsylvania Academy, Philadel phia, and "Mother and Child" in the Corcoran Art Gallery, Wash ington (D.C.). He has received gold medals from the Pennsyl vania Academy of Fine Arts, 1897, and Paris Exposition, 1900.