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Clement Drew (1806–1889) was an artist and "dealer in picture-frames" in
Boston
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,
Massachusetts
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, 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
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(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
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, 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
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, 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
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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