biographie de Amanda Brewster SEWELL (1859-1926)

Birth place: North Elba, Essex County, NY

Addresses: Oyster Bay, NYC, NY

Profession: Painter

Studied: Cooper Union with Douglas Volk and R. Swain Gifford; ASL with W.M. Chase & William Sartain; Académie Julian, Paris with Robert-Fleury, William Bourguereau; privately with Carolus-Duran.

Exhibited: Brooklyn AA, 1882; Paris Salon, 1886-88, 1889; AIC; NAD, 1881-84, 1888 ( Dodge Prize), 1903 (Clarke Prize); PAFA Ann., 1888 (under Brewster), 1889-1905; Columbian Expo., Chicago, 1893 (med.); Boston AC, 1896, 1898, 1904; Pan-Am. Expo., Buffalo, 1901 (med.); Charleston Expo., 1902 (med.); St. Louis Expo., 1904 (med.); Am. Art Assoc. 1891 (solo); Corcoran Gal annual, 1907.

Member: ANA, 1903; NAWA; Cosmopolitan Club; Women's AC

Comments: Specialized in Arcadian landscapes as well as portraiture. Born Lydia Amanda Brewster, she married Robert V. Sewell, and is usually known as Amanda Brewster Sewell.

Sources: WW27; Pisano, One Hundred Years...the National Association of Women Artists, 81; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 324; Falk, Exh. Record Series.