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John Brewster Jr SIGNATURES
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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