Alonzo Hartwell

Alonzo Hartwell (19 February 1805 in Littleton, Massachusetts – 17 January 1873 in Waltham, Massachusetts) was an engraver and portrait artist in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.[1][2][3] He trained with Abel Bowen in Boston[4][5] and in 1826 went into business for himself.[3] Hartwell's work appeared in the American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge and other publications. Among Hartwell's students were artists George Loring Brown and Benjamin F. Childs.[4] In 1850, he received the silver medal of the Charlestown, Massachusetts, Mechanics' Association.[3] He continued as an engraver until 1851, when he turned to portrait painting.[3] 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.[6]

Portrait of Jacob Perkins. Croome, del.; Hartwell sc. Page from: American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge. vol.2, 1835.
  • Boston Massacre, in: American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge, 1835[7]
  • From: American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge, 1836
  • Davy Crockett, in: Crockett Almanac, 1839[8]
  • From: S.G. Goodrich. A Pictorial Natural History (Boston: James Munroe & Company, 1854)

References
  1. "70 Wash. h. 4 Gov. Alley;" cf. Boston Directory. 1832
  2. Bolton. Early American Portrait Draughtsmen, in Crayons. 1923, 1970
  3. Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). "Hartwell, Alonzo" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
  4. W. J. Linton. The History of Wood-Engraving in America. Chapter III. American Art Review, Vol. 1, No. 7 (May, 1880)
  5. Boston painters and paintings. Atlantic Monthly, Sept. 1888.
  6. Susan Maycock Vogel Hartwell and Richardson: An Introduction to Their Work, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 32, No. 2 (May, 1973), pp. 132–146
  7. "Boston Athenaeum". Retrieved 2010-06-14.
  8. Frederick S. Voss. Portraying an American Original: The Likenesses of Davy Crockett. Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 91, No. 4 (Apr., 1988)
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