Career
When Evans enlisted in the United States. Marine Corps as a private in July 1829, he listed his trade as a shoemaker. Shortly after enlisting he contracted fever and, on the request of his father, John Evans of Philadelphia, he was discharged as a minor in October 1829. Nine months later, in July 1830, he re-enlisted in the Marine Corps and served until he was discharged at Norfolk, Virginia, on 4 March 1836.
Based on some of his known paintings, he may have served in United States Ship Constellation in 1830-1832 and he is known to have served in the ship-of-the line United States Ship Delaware from 1832 to 1836.
While serving in the Mediterranean, Evans became engaged to a Spanish woman named Ana on Minorca. Evans painted a number of ship portraits, both naval and merchant.
In 1852-1853, he took as a new partner an artist named Johnson. Evans left New Orleans to return briefly to Cuba in about 1853.
Little is known of his remaining years.
