Biografie von George Henry YEWELL (1830-1923)

Birth place: Havre-de-Grace, MD

Death place: Lake George, NY

Addresses: NYC, 1862-67, 1879-99/Lake George, NY

Profession: Portrait and genre painter, etcher, cartoonist

Studied: NAD, with T. Hicks,1851-56; in Paris with Thomas Couture,1856

Exhibited: NAD, 1852-1916; PAFA, 1862; Brooklyn AA, 1862-84; Paris Salon, 1872, 1874; NY Etching Cl, 1888; Parrish AM, 1984 ("Painter-Etchers" exh.)

Member: A.N.A., 1862; N.A., 1880; A. Fund S.; Century

Work: MMA; Louisville (KY) Art Gal.; Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford; Hist. Dept., Des Moines; Acad. Med., NYC; Presbyterian Bldg., NYC; Univ. Iowa.

Comments: Although he painted genre and architectural subjects, he was best known as a portrait painter. In 1841, when he was eleven, his widowed mother brought him to Iowa. During the 1850s, he studied in Paris, and in 1862 returned to settle in NYC. On his next extended European trip, he was living in Rome from 1871-78, visiting Egypt in 1875. He returned to NYC in 1878 and during the early 1880s began summering at Lake George, NY.

Sources: G&W; WW04; Ness and Orwig, Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years, 227; Cowdrey, NAD; Naylor, NAD; Falk, NAD; Clark, History of the NAD; Swan, BA; Rutledge, PA; American Painter-Etcher Movement 54; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 409.