Abby A Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
301 South Nassau Street
P.O. Box 1776
Williamsburg, VA 23187-1776
P.O. Box 1776
Williamsburg, VA 23187-1776
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1766 Hampton, Connecticut - 1854 Buxton, Maine. Known for: Naive adult and child portrait painting.
Born in Hampton, Connecticut, John Brewster was a deaf-mute born to Dr. John Brewster and Mary Durkee, his first wife. The son was raised in a highly cultured family with seven brothers and sisters.... Read full biography
Born in Hampton, Connecticut, John Brewster was a deaf-mute born to Dr. John Brewster and Mary Durkee, his first wife. The son was raised in a highly cultured family with seven brothers and sisters. His mother died when he was seventeen years old, and the father then married Ruth Avery. Brewster... Read full biography
Born in Hampton, Connecticut, John Brewster was a deaf-mute born to Dr. John Brewster and Mary Durkee, his first wife. The son was raised in a highly cultured family with seven brothers and sisters. His mother died when he was seventeen years old, and the father then married Ruth Avery. Brewster worked successfully as an itinerant portrait painter, especially of children, along the New England coast. He worked extensively in Maine, where his brother, Royal, moved in 1795, taking John Brewster... Read full biography
Born in Hampton, Connecticut, John Brewster was a deaf-mute born to Dr. John Brewster and Mary Durkee, his first wife. The son was raised in a highly cultured family with seven brothers and sisters. His mother died when he was seventeen years old, and the father then married Ruth Avery. Brewster worked successfully as an itinerant portrait painter, especially of children, along the New England coast. He worked extensively in Maine, where his brother, Royal, moved in 1795, taking John Brewster with him. There he met the Cutts famiy, who were local 'gentry' and for whom he did life size standing portraits "of the dourly reproving Col. and Mrs. Thomas Cutts, pictures that bring Brewster, in spirit, close to his Calvinist roots and suggest why... Read full biography
Born in Hampton, Connecticut, John Brewster was a deaf-mute born to Dr. John Brewster and Mary Durkee, his first wife. The son was raised in a highly cultured family with seven brothers and sisters. His mother died when he was seventeen years old, and the father then married Ruth Avery. Brewster worked successfully as an itinerant portrait painter, especially of children, along the New England coast. He worked extensively in Maine, where his brother, Royal, moved in 1795, taking John Brewster with him. There he met the Cutts famiy, who were local 'gentry' and for whom he did life size standing portraits "of the dourly reproving Col. and Mrs. Thomas Cutts, pictures that bring Brewster, in spirit, close to his Calvinist roots and suggest why he so often seems more an 18th than a 19th-century artist." (Cotter). In Maine, he also did many por... Read full biography
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Museums & Collections (10)
All MuseumsBrick Store Museum
117 Main Street
Kennebunk, ME 04043Chrysler Museum of Art
245 West Olney Road
Norfolk, VA 23510Fenimore Art Museum
5798 State Highway 80
Po Box 800
Cooperstown, NY 13326Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115Museum of Old Newbury
98 High Street
Newburyport, MA 01950Old Sturbridge Village
Old Sturbridge Village Road
Sturbridge, MA 01566Peabody Essex Museum
East India Square
161 Essex Square
Salem, MA 01970RISD Museum
224 Benefit Street
20 North Main Street
Providence, RI 02903-2723Shelburne Museum
6000 Shelburne Road
P.O. Box 10
Shelburne, VT 05482