Alonzo Hartwell

Alonzo Hartwell
BornFebruary 19, 1805
Littleton, Massachusetts
DiedJanuary 17, 1873 (1873-01-18) (aged 67)
Waltham, Massachusetts
Burial placeMount Feake Cemetery
Occupations
  • Engraver
  • portrait artist
ChildrenHenry W. Hartwell

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.

Notes

  1. ^ In American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge, 1835[7]
  2. ^ From: S.G. Goodrich. A Pictorial Natural History (Boston: James Munroe & Company, 1854)
  3. ^ From: Croome, del.; Hartwell sc. Page from: American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge. vol.2, 1835.

References

  1. ^ "70 Wash. h. 4 Gov. Alley;" cf. Boston Directory. 1832
  2. ^ Bolton. Early American Portrait Draughtsmen, in Crayons. 1923, 1970
  3. ^ a b c d Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). "Hartwell, Alonzo" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
  4. ^ a b W. J. Linton. The History of Wood-Engraving in America. Chapter III. American Art Review, Vol. 1, No. 7 (May, 1880)
  5. ^ Boston painters and paintings. Atlantic Monthly, Sept. 1888.
  6. ^ 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
  7. ^ "Boston Athenaeum". Retrieved 2010-06-14.
  8. ^ From: American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge, 1836
  9. ^ 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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