biography of I. HEWETT (XIX)

Profession: Amateur (?) artist

Comments: Delineator of two views of the storming of Fort Oswego, May 6, 1814, which were engraved and published in London in 1815. The artist may have been a Lt. John Hewett of the Royal Marines.

Sources: G&W; Stokes, Historic Prints, 561; List of the Officers of the Army and Royal Marines, 1815.