Newell, Hugh
(1830-1915)
“Playing on a Teeter-totter”

Artist Biography

Newell was a painter of genre, still lifes, landscape and portraits born in Belfast, Ireland. He lived in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Maryland. He is most well known for his genre paintings. He is a member of the Irish School of Painters. He studied at the Academy d’Anvers and continued his studies in Paris under Couture and at the Royal College of Art in London. He was principal at Women’s School of Design, Pittsburg, Head of Maryland Inst., of Art and Design, and professor of drawing at Johns Hopkins Univ. He was a member of the  American Watercolor Society.