Robert Wilson Andrews (June 8, 1837 – 1922) was a Hawaii-born artist and engineer. His father

Lorrin Andrews Lorrin Andrews (April 29, 1795 – September 29, 1868) was an early American missionary to Hawaii and a judge. He opened the first post-secondary school for Hawaiians called Lahainaluna Seminary, prepared a Hawaiian dictionary and several works ...

(1795–1868) was an early American missionary to Hawaii and a judge. Prior to leaving Hawaii in 1859, Robert made a number of finely crafter landscape drawings including renderings of the sacrificial stone at Kolekole Pass, Iao Needle, Kapuuohookamoa-Hāmākualoa Falls and Hanapēpē Falls. He studied engineering on the mainland at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and returned to Hawaii in 1863, where he worked as a sugar mill engineer for 30 years. He remained involved with the church, and spent his retirement years teaching Sunday school.Siddall, 1921

References

* Severson, Don R., ''Finding Paradise: Island Art in Private Collections'', University of Hawaii Press, 2002, pp. 73–4. * Siddall, John William, ''Men of Hawaii'', Honolulu, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1921, Vol. 2, p. 17. * Siddall, John William, ''Men of Hawaii'', Honolulu, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1917, Vol. 2, pp. 11-13.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Andrews, Robert Wilson Hawaiian Kingdom artists 1837 births 1922 deaths Engineers from the Hawaiian Kingdom