biography of Ambrose ANDREWS (1801-1860)

Profession: Itinerant portrait, miniature, and landscape painter

Exhibited: St. Louis, MO (1844); American Art-Union (c.1847-53: views of Montreal, Vermont, and Connecticut); PAFA (1848); NAD (1849); American Institute (1856: Portrait of Henry Clay); Royal Academy, London (1859).

Work: NYHS (Water color portrait of Philip Schuyler and family of Schuylerville, 1824)

Comments: Active 1824-59. He was working in Schuylerville (NY) in 1824; Troy (NY), 1829-31; Stockbridge (MA), 1836; New Haven (CT),1837; New Orleans, 1841-42; NYC, 1847-53; Buffalo, 1856-59; and St. Louis.

Sources: G&W; Bolton, Miniature Painters; Cowdrey, NAD; Cowdrey, AA & AAU; Delgado-WPA cites New Orleans Picayune, June 24 and Aug. 17, 1841, and Aug. 12, 1842; NYBD 1849-52; Buffalo BD 1856-58; N.Y. State BD 1859; Graves, Dictionary; Am. Inst. Cat., 1856; Rutledge, PA; American Collector (Jan. 1935), 2, repro.; American Primitive Painting, repro.; Antiques (Nov. 1950), 393, repro. Andrews' presence in Stockbridge in 1836 suggests the possibility that he was the Ambrose Andrus born at West Stockbridge, July 19, 1801 ( West Stockbridge Vital Statistics, 9). Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists, 9.