Amanda Brewster Sewell
Lydia Amanda Brewster Sewell was a 19thcentury American painter of portraits and genre scenes. Lydia Amanda Brewster studied art in the United States and in Paris before marrying her husband, fellow artist Robert Van Vorst Sewell. She was one of only four women to exhibit a significant number of paintings at The Worlds Columbian Exposition in 1893 and one a bronze medal for her mural Arcadia. She continued to win medals at expositions and was the first woman to win a major prize at the National Academy of Design, where she was made an Associate Academian in 1903. She was vice president of the Womans Art Club of New York by 1906. Her works are in several public collections.
Lydia Amanda Brewster, the daughter of Benjamin T. Brewster and Julia Ann Washburn Brewster, was born in North Elba, New York on February 24, 1859. Sewell painted William Brewster, a Mayflower passenger and one of her ancestors, when she was a young girl.
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