Clement Drew
Clement Drew (1806–1889) was an artist and "dealer in picture-frames" in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.[1] He specialized in marine paintings. He kept a studio on Court Street (ca.1840s-1860s),[2][3] Tremont Street (in the Boston Museum building, ca.1873), Copeland Street (ca.1888),[4] and Tremont Temple (1889).[5] He married Elizabeth Teal in 1829; they had two children.[1]
Among the subjects painted by Drew: "Abaellino privateer, 1812";[6] Bark Vernon on Lynn Beach, Morning, Feby. 3rd, 1859;[7] Brig Vintage (built 1837);[8] missionary packet Morning Star[9] Minot's Light; "the ship Abolition and the wreck Colonization, 1839;"[10] sailing ship Uriel;[11] yacht passing Thatcher Island Lights, Cape Ann;[12] Ship Mary L. Sutton;[12] Ship Hound;[12] and wreck of the Schooner Hesperus on Norman's Woe, Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1883.[13]
Images
Missionary packet Morning Star passing Boston Light; painted by C.Drew, print by J.H. Bufford’s Lith.
Morning Off Boston Light, 1879
Cape Horn, 1884
Eastward voyage of the new Cunarder Acadia, ca 1840-1860, in the collection at The Mariners' Museum
References
Francis Samuel Drake. Memorials of the Society of the Cincinnati of Massachusetts. Boston: 1873
Boston Directory, 1848, 1864
Boston Almanac, 1847, 1858
Boston Almanac, 1888
Boston Almanac, 1889
"Maritime exhibition: a big show in Boston's Mechanics' building", New York Times, November 10, 1889
Painted by Clement Drew (1859), Bark Vernon on Lynn Beach: Morning, Feby. 3rd. 1859, Boston: J.H. Bufford’s Lith.
Norman E. Muller (1977), "Checklist of Boston Retailers in Artist's Materials: 1823-1887", Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, 17
Painted by C. Drew; J.P.Newell del., Missionary packet Morning Star passing Boston Light, Boston: C.Drew; J.H.Bufford’s Lith.
"February Meeting. Gifts to the Society", Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 3rd series, 49, February 1916
Art News, 22, April 12, 1924
"Collections". Connecticut: Mystic Seaport. Retrieved August 18, 2010.
"Blackwood/March Auctioneers, Massachusetts".
Further reading
"Death of artist Drew", Boston Daily Globe, June 1, 1889
Groce and Wallace, New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America
Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art
External links
WorldCat. Drew, Clement 1806-1889
Mystic Seaport, Connecticut. Works by C. Drew.
The Mariners' Museum
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