Career
He specialized in marine paintings. He kept a studio on Court Street (ca1840s-1860s), Tremont Street (in the Boston Museum building, ca1873), Copeland Street (ca1888), and Tremont Temple (1889). Among the subjects painted by Drew: "Abaellino privateer, 1812".
Bark Vernon on Lynn Beach, Morning, Feby.
3rd, 1859; Brigadier Vintage (built 1837). Missionary packet Morning Star Minot"s Light.
"the ship Abolition and the wreck Colonization, 1839;" sailing ship Uriel. Yacht passing Thatcher Island Lights, Cape Annual
Ship Mary L. Sutton; Ship Hound.
And wreck of the Schooner Hesperus on Norman"s Woe, Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1883.