Clement Drew

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