Amasa Hewins

Amasa Hewins (July 11 1795-August 18 1855) was an American portrait, genre, and landscape painter.

Hewins was born in Sharon, Massachusetts to Esther (Kollock) and Amasa Hewins. He married Elizabeth Alden on August 22 1820. Thereafter he lived in Boston, and first exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum in 1830, and occasionally thereafter until 1846. During the early 1830s he went abroad to study in Italy, France, and Spain; after his return he exhibited in Boston a panorama of the sea and shores of the Mediterranean in 1848.

Hewins died in Florence, Italy and is buried in the Protestant Cemetery there (often called the English Cemetery). According to cemetery records, he was Secretary to the Consulate of the United States at Livorno at the time of his death. His papers are collected in the Boston Athenaeum.

Selected paintings

* 1835 "Woman of Boston", Fruitlands Museum
* 1836 "Lady Seated at a Work Table", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
* 1836 "Lady Playing the Piano", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
* ? , "Room Interior with Man and Woman at Table", private collection?
* ? , Wadsworth Athenaeum
* ? , Dedham Historical Society, Dedham, Massachusetts
* ? , Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine

Selected writings

* Allen, Francis H. (ed.), "Hewin's Journal. A Boston Portrait Painter Visits Italy. The Journal of Amasa Hewins, 1830-1833". Boston; The Boston Athenaeum: 1931.

References

* Groce & Wallace, "The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America"
* Peter Falk, "Who Was Who In American Art"