(1820-1901) George Brewerton, best known today as a painter of Western landscapes, studied at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. As a member of the U.S. Army he sketched in California during the war with Mexico in 1847. He accompanied Kit Carson to Taos, writing an illustrated article about it for Harper's magazine. In 1859 his home was listed as Newport, but he traveled widely, from California to the tropics to Ireland; he also painted in the Adirondacks, Catskills, and White Mountains and along the New England coast to the Bay of Fundy. He wrote poetry and non-fiction including The War in Kansas: A Rough Trip to the Border, and several training manuals for Civil War recruits. Brewerton maintained a studio in Newport in the 1860s and exhibited extensively, including shows at the National Academy, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Brooklyn Art Association, and the Redwood Library in Newport.

Biography courtesy of Roger King Gallery of Fine Art, www.antiquesandfineart.com/rking