Alonzo Hartwell (19 February 1805 in

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– 17 January 1873 in

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) was an engraver and portrait artist in

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, in the 19th century. He trained with

Abel Bowen __NOTOC__ Abel Bowen (1790-1850) was an engraver, publisher, and author in early 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. Biography Bowen was born in New York in 1790. Arriving in Boston in 1812, he worked as a printer for the Columbian Museum, at t ...

in BostonW. J. Linton. The History of Wood-Engraving in America. Chapter III. American Art Review, Vol. 1, No. 7 (May, 1880) and in 1826 went into business for himself. Hartwell's work appeared in the ''

American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge The ''American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge'' (1834–1837) was a monthly magazine based in Boston, Massachusetts. It was established by a group of engravers to "give to the public a work descriptive, not merely of subjects, scen ...

'' and other publications. Among Hartwell's students were artists

George Loring Brown George Loring Brown (February 2, 1814 – June 25, 1889) was an American landscape painter. He was born in Boston and first studied wood engraving under Alonzo Hartwell and worked as an illustrator. He studied painting with Washington Allston, ...

and Benjamin F. Childs. In 1850, he received the silver medal of the

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, Mechanics' Association. He continued as an engraver until 1851, when he turned to portrait painting. Hartwell is buried in Mount Feake Cemetery in Waltham, MA. One of Hartwell's children, Henry Walker Hartwell, became an architect in the Boston firm

Hartwell and Richardson Hartwell and Richardson was a Boston, Massachusetts architectural firm established in 1881, by Henry Walker Hartwell (1833–1919) and William Cummings Richardson (1854–1935). The firm contributed significantly to the current building stock and ...

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, in: ''American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge'', 1835 Image:1836 AmericanMagazine illus byHartwell.jpeg, From: ''American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge'', 1836 Image:1839 CrockettAlmanac byWCroome cover.png,

Davy Crockett David Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was an American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He is often referred to in popular culture as the "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Re ...

, in: Crockett Almanac, 1839Frederick S. Voss. Portraying an American Original: The Likenesses of Davy Crockett. Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 91, No. 4 (Apr., 1988) Image:1854 NaturalHistory byGoodrich illus byHartwell.png, From: S.G. Goodrich. A Pictorial Natural History (Boston: James Munroe & Company, 1854)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hartwell, Alonzo American engravers 1805 births 1873 deaths 19th century in Boston Artists from Boston People from Littleton, Massachusetts