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Clement Drew (1806–1889) was an artist and "dealer in picture-frames" in
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
,
, in the 19th century.
[Francis Samuel Drake. Memorials of the Society of the Cincinnati of Massachusetts. Boston: 1873] He specialized in marine paintings. He kept a studio on
Court Street (ca.1840s-1860s), Tremont Street (in the
Boston Museum building, ca.1873), Copeland Street (ca.1888), and
Tremont Temple (1889). He married Elizabeth Teal in 1829; they had two children.
Among the subjects painted by Drew: "Abaellino privateer, 1812"; Bark Vernon on
Lynn Beach, Morning, Feby. 3rd, 1859; Brig Vintage (built 1837); missionary packet Morning Star
Minot's Light; "the ship Abolition and the wreck Colonization, 1839;" sailing ship Uriel; yacht passing
Thatcher Island Lights, Cape Ann;
Ship Mary L. Sutton;
Ship Hound;
and wreck of the Schooner Hesperus on Norman's Woe,
Gloucester, Massachusetts
Gloucester () is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. It sits on Cape Ann and is a part of Massachusetts's North Shore. The population was 29,729 at the 2020 U.S. Census. An important center of the fishing industry and a ...
, 1883.
Images
Image:Missionary packet Morning Star passing Boston Light BuffordsLithography LC.jpeg, Missionary packet Morning Star passing Boston Light
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; painted by C.Drew, print by J.H. Bufford’s Lith.
Image:1879 Morning Off Boston Light byClementDrew.jpg, Morning Off Boston Light, 1879
Image:1884 Ship Scudding Off Cape Horn byClementDrew.jpg, Cape Horn
Cape Horn ( es, Cabo de Hornos, ) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island. Although not the most southerly point of South America (which are the Diego Ramírez ...
, 1884
Image:Eastward voyage of the new Cunarder Acadia Clement Drew.jpg, ''Eastward voyage of the new Cunarder Acadia'', ca 1840-1860, in the collection at The Mariners' Museum
References
Further reading
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External links
WorldCat Drew, Clement 1806-1889
Mystic Seaport Connecticut. Works by C. Drew.
The Mariners' Museum
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1806 births
1889 deaths
Painters from Boston
19th century in Boston
American marine artists
19th-century American painters
American male painters
Cultural history of Boston
19th-century American male artists