Alonzo Hartwell (February 19, 1805 – January 17, 1873) was an engraver and portrait artist in Boston , Massachusetts , in the 19th century.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
Biography
Hartwell was born February 19, 1805, in Littleton, Massachusetts . He trained with Abel Bowen in Boston[ 4] [ 5] and in 1826 went into business for himself.[ 3] Hartwell's work appeared in the American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge and other publications. Among Hartwell's students were artists George Loring Brown and Benjamin F. Childs.[ 4] In 1850, he received the silver medal of the Charlestown, Massachusetts , Mechanics' Association.[ 3] He continued as an engraver until 1851, when he turned to portrait painting.[ 3]
One of Hartwell's children, Henry W. Hartwell , became an architect in the Boston firm Hartwell and Richardson .[ 6] Hartwell died January 17, 1873, in Waltham, Massachusetts . He is buried in Mount Feake Cemetery in Waltham, Massachusetts .
Image gallery
The Broken Hearted
Guided by
Minerva ,
Mercury is bearing Science round the world.
[ 8]
Davy Crockett , in The Crockett Almanac, 1839
[ 9]
Capture of Annawon by Stratagem, 1856
The Liberator masthead, 1861
Notes
^ In American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge , 1835[ 7]
^ From: S.G. Goodrich . A Pictorial Natural History (Boston: James Munroe & Company, 1854)
^ From: Croome, del.; Hartwell sc. Page from: American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge. vol.2, 1835.
References
^ "70 Wash. h. 4 Gov. Alley;" cf. Boston Directory. 1832
^ Bolton. Early American Portrait Draughtsmen, in Crayons. 1923, 1970
^ a b c d Wilson, J. G. ; Fiske, J. , eds. (1892). "Hartwell, Alonzo" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . New York: D. Appleton.
^ a b W. J. Linton. The History of Wood-Engraving in America. Chapter III. American Art Review, Vol. 1, No. 7 (May, 1880)
^ Boston painters and paintings. Atlantic Monthly, Sept. 1888.
^ Susan Maycock Vogel Hartwell and Richardson: An Introduction to Their Work, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 32, No. 2 (May, 1973), pp. 132–146
^ "Boston Athenaeum" . Retrieved 2010-06-14 .
^ From: American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge , 1836
^ Frederick S. Voss. Portraying an American Original: The Likenesses of Davy Crockett. Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 91, No. 4 (Apr., 1988)
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International National Artists