John Brewster Jr.

John Brewster, Jr.
Born1766 (1766)
Hampton, Connecticut
DiedAugust 13, 1854 (1854-08-14)
Buxton, Maine
NationalityAmerican
Known forPainting

John Brewster Jr. (May 30 or May 31, 1766 – August 13, 1854)[1] 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."[2]

  1. ^ Kornhauser, Elizabeth M. (2011). "Brewster, John, Jr.", The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, vol. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 332. ISBN 9780195335798
  2. ^ "Fenimore Art Museum - A Deaf Artist in Early America: The Worlds of John Brewster, Jr". Archived from the original on 2007-05-24. Retrieved 2006-08-07. Website of the Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York, exhibition info page: "A Deaf Artist in Early America: The Worlds of John Brewster, Jr.," accessed February 28, 2007.