biographie de Alexander Hamilton CLEMENTS (1818-1896)

Birth place: Georgetown (Wash., DC)

Death place: Wash., DC

Addresses: Washington, DC, 1860-96

Profession: Landscape painter

Exhibited: American Art-Union, 1848, 1860; Wash. Art Assoc., 1860

Member: American Art-Union

Work: Corcoran Gallery (The Source of the Potomac"); National Gallery of Art (view of Washington D.C. in 1848)"

Comments: Career diplomat: Consul to Messina, Italy, 1849-52; Perrabuco, Brazil, 1852-58. Shared a studio at one time with John Mix Stanley.

Sources: G&W; Records of artists at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington (D.C.); Cowdrey, AA & AAU; Washington and Georgetown CD 1860; McMahan, Artists of Washington, D.C.