Clement Drew (1806–1889) was an artist and "dealer in picture-frames" in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.[1] He specialized in marine paintings. He kept a studio on Court Street (ca.1840s-1860s),[2][3] Tremont Street (in the Boston Museum building, ca.1873), Copeland Street (ca.1888),[4] and Tremont Temple (1889).[5] He married Elizabeth Teal in 1829; they had two children.[1]

Among the subjects painted by Drew: "Abaellino privateer, 1812";[6] Bark Vernon on Lynn Beach, Morning, Feby. 3rd, 1859;[7] Brig Vintage (built 1837);[8] missionary packet Morning Star[9] Minot's Light; "the ship Abolition and the wreck Colonization, 1839;"[10] sailing ship Uriel;[11] yacht passing Thatcher Island Lights, Cape Ann;[12] Ship Mary L. Sutton;[12] Ship Hound;[12] and wreck of the Schooner Hesperus on Norman's Woe, Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1883.[13]

Images

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

References

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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Clement Drew.

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