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Clement Drew

Clement Drew (1806–1889) was an artist and "dealer in picture-frames" in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century. He specialized in marine paintings. He kept a studio on Court Street (ca.1840s-1860s), Tremont Street, Copeland Street (ca.1888), and Tremont Temple (1889). He married Elizabeth Teal in 1829; they had two children.

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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),23 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 Star9 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

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  1. Francis Samuel Drake. Memorials of the Society of the Cincinnati of Massachusetts. Boston: 1873
  2. Boston Directory 1848, 1864
  3. Boston Almanac 1847, 1858
  4. Boston Almanac, 1888
  5. Boston Almanac, 1889
  6. "Maritime exhibition: a big show in Boston's Mechanics' building", New York Times, November 10, 1889
  7. Painted by Clement Drew (1859), Bark Vernon on Lynn Beach: Morning, Feby. 3rd. 1859, Boston: J.H. Bufford’s Lith.
  8. Norman E. Muller (1977), "Checklist of Boston Retailers in Artist's Materials: 1823-1887", Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, 17
  9. Painted by C. Drew; J.P.Newell del., Missionary packet Morning Star passing Boston Light, Boston: C.Drew; J.H.Bufford’s Lith.
  10. "February Meeting. Gifts to the Society", Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 3rd series, vol. 49, February 1916
  11. Art News, vol. 22, April 12, 1924
  12. "Collections". Connecticut: Mystic Seaport. Retrieved August 18, 2010.
  13. "Blackwood/March Auctioneers, Massachusetts". Archived from the original on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2010-08-18.
Further reading

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
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