Artist
John Brewster, Jr.
American, 1766–1854
John Brewster, Jr. was an American American Folk Art artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Fine Arts Boston. John Brewster, Jr. was born in Hampton.
John Brewster Jr. (May 30 or May 31, 1766 – August 13, 1854) was a prolific, Deaf itinerant painter who produced many charming portraits of well-off New England families, especially their children. He lived much of the latter half of his life in Buxton, Maine, USA, recording the faces of much of Maine's elite society of his time. According to the website of the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York, "Brewster was not an artist who incidentally was Deaf but rather a Deaf artist, one in a long tradition that owes many of its features and achievements to the fact that Deaf people are, as scholars have noted, visual people."
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