Hugh Newell, American. (1830-1915).
Hugh Newell was a portrait, genre and landscape painter. He was born in Ireland and emigrated to
the U.S. in 1851. He studied art in Antwerp, Paris, and at the Royal College of Art, London.
After arriving in the U.S., he worked in Baltimore and for several years in Pittsburgh as principal
of the Women's School of Design. He returned to Maryland around 1878, where he became a professor
at the Maryland Institute of Design in Baltimore and also a professor of Drawing at Johns Hopkins
University. In his later years, Newell settled in Bloomfield, NJ where he died in 1915.
During his career, he exhibited at the National Academy of Design, NYC, the Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts (PAFA), the Maryland Historical Society, the Brooklyn Art Association, the Boston Art
Club, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Washington, D.C. Art Association. Newell's paintings are
included in the collections of the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, and the Shelburne Museum, VT.
"Summer Pastoral"
Signed lower right.
Oil on canvas. 15" x 24"
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