How can I install Mavericks on a gifted 2011 MacBook Pro?

My brother gifted me his late 2011 MacBook Pro running OS X Lion.
I booted with command+r, launched the Disk Utility, and erased the disk.  I closed Disk Utility and selected "Reinstall Mac OS X."  The machine tells me that it needs to verify my computer's eligibility before it will download and restore Mac OS X, presumably because Lion was not free like Mavericks.  It then fails and says that it could not find installation information for the machine.
Would it be possible for me to download the Mavericks install on an external hard drive, plug the external drive into the machine, and just install Mavericks using my Apple ID?  If so, what would be the steps to do this?
Thanks

Also, where on my machine does a full Mavericks install image download to when I download it from the App Store?

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