biografía de Samuel ROWELL (1815-1890)

Lugar de nacimiento: Amesbury, MA

Lugar de defunción: Amesbury, MA

Direcciones: Amesbury, MA (until at least 1843); Lawrence, MA (1848); Portsmouth, NH (c.1849)

Profesión: Portrait painter, miniaturist, and commercial artist

Estudios: John Reubens Smith and Joseph Kyle in Phila., 1838-39

Comentarios: When he lost his first and second fingers on his right hand he became a master painter (not artist) at the Portsmouth Navy Yard (NH), 1861-70. A portrait miniature dated 1843 and marked "Amesbury" was sold at a J.D. Julia auction, Maine, Feb. 1998.

Fuentes: G&W; Belknap, Artists and Craftsmen of Essex County, 12 (Records indicate he was living in Amesbury when he married in 1841.); Brewington, 333