Alonzo Hartwell | |
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| Born | February 19, 1805 |
| Died | January 17, 1873 (aged 67) |
| Burial place | Mount Feake Cemetery |
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| Children | Henry W. Hartwell |
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Alonzo Hartwell (February 19, 1805 – January 17, 1873) was an engraver and portrait artist in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.
Biography
Hartwell was born February 19, 1805, in Littleton, Massachusetts. He trained with Abel Bowen in Boston and in 1826 went into business for himself. 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. In 1850, he received the silver medal of the Charlestown, Massachusetts, Mechanics' Association. He continued as an engraver until 1851, when he turned to portrait painting.
One of Hartwell's children, Henry W. Hartwell, became an architect in the Boston firm Hartwell and Richardson. Hartwell died January 17, 1873, in Waltham, Massachusetts. He is buried in Mount Feake Cemetery in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Image gallery
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The Broken Hearted
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Boston Custom House, 1851
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Davy Crockett, in The Crockett Almanac, 1839
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Mineralogy.
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Capture of Annawon by Stratagem, 1856
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Portrait of Jacob Perkins.
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The Liberator masthead, 1861
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Notes
- ^ In American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge, 1835
- ^ 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). . 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)
