Randolph Stanley Hewton was a painter, educator and businessman. He was born in Megantic, Quebec, and died in Trenton, Ontario. His family moved to Lachine, Quebec (a suburb of Montreal) when he was a child, and he lived in Montreal until his business, Miller Brothers (paper boxes), moved to Glen Miller, Ontario (3 miles from Trenton) in 1933.

His primary mediums were oil and watercolour. His subjects were portraits, nudes, figures, landscapes, snowscapes and genre. The landscape locations were in and around Montreal, La Malbaie, Baie Saint Paul, other Quebec towns, the countryside in the Laurentians and along the St. Lawrence River in Quebec. Alexander Y. Jackson, Albert Henry Robi...