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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 (in the Boston Museum building, ca.1873), Copeland Street (ca.1888), and Tremont Temple (1889). He married Elizabeth Teal in 1829; they had two children.

Among the subjects painted by Drew: "Abaellino privateer, 1812"; Bark Vernon on Lynn Beach, Morning, Feby. 3rd, 1859; Brig Vintage (built 1837); missionary packet Morning Star Minot's Light; "the ship Abolition and the wreck Colonization, 1839;" sailing ship Uriel; yacht passing Thatcher Island Lights, Cape Ann; Ship Mary L. Sutton; Ship Hound; and wreck of the Schooner Hesperus on Norman's Woe, Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1883.

Images

• Missionary packet Morning Star passing Boston Light; painted by C.Drew, print by J.H. Bufford’s Lith.
• Morning Off Boston Light, 1879
• Cape Horn, 1884
• Eastward voyage of the new Cunarder Acadia, ca 1840-1860, in the collection at The Mariners' Museum

References

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

• "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

External links

• WorldCat. Drew, Clement 1806-1889
• Mystic Seaport, Connecticut. Works by C. Drew.
• The Mariners' Museum

• 1806 births
• 1889 deaths
• Painters from Boston
• 19th century in Boston
• American marine artists
• 19th-century American painters
• American male painters
• Cultural history of Boston
• 19th-century American male artists