biografía de Sturtevant J. HAMBLEN (act.1837-1856)

Profesión: Portrait painter

Obra: NGA; Colby College Mus. Art, Maine

Comentarios: Was the brother of Eli, Joseph G., and Nathaniel Hamblen and brother-in-law of William Matthew Prior (see entries on each). Hamblen and the Priors worked together as an artist-family in Portand, ME, possibly as early as 1823, but at least by 1834. Among them William Matthew Prior and Hamblem were the portrait painters; and their styles are not only difficult to distinguish, but are very similar to many other primitive portraitists of New England. Thus, the appelation, "Prior-Hamblen School" is commonly used as an all-encompassing term. About 1840 "the painting Hamblens" (with the exception of Eli, who died in 1839) moved to Boston. Sturtevant was listed as a portrait painter there until 1856, when he and Joseph went into the mens' furnishings business.

Fuentes: G&W; Little, William M. Prior, Traveling Artist, and His In-Laws, the Painting Hamblens"; Boston BD 1842-56; Lipman and Winchester, 173, as L.J. Hamblin; 300 Years of American Art, vol. 1, 197"