| Title |
Brewster, Edmund |
| Date |
ca. 1794-ca. 1850 |
| Description |
Edmund Brewster, born ca. 1794 in New Jersey, was an artist and lithographer
who worked in Philadelphia from the late 1820s to 1850. Before entering the lithographic trade, Brewster worked as a respected
portrait painter in New Orleans from 1819 to the early 1820s. From 1828 to 1833, Brewster worked as a portrait painter in
Philadelphia while he also operated a lithographic establishment at 82 South Third Street. He produced predominately portrait
lithographs and later entered into daguerreotypy. Brewster also exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in
1818.
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By 1840, Brewster lived in Southwark Ward 5, where he continued to live with his wife Lydia (b. ca. 1802) and several children
aged 20 to 26, including son and doctor Thomas Brewster, who in April 1850 advertised his assumption of his father's daguerreotype
studio (Rye and Wharton streets) as well as the sale of a lithographic press.
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| Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Bibliographic citation |
Census 1840, 1850 |
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Fielding, 100 |
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Groce & Wallace, 79 |
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WWWAA, 437 |
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Public Ledger, April 5, 1850 |
