Robert Van Vorst Sewell

Background

Sewell, Robert Van Vorst was born in 1860 in New York, United States. Son of Robert and Sarah (van Vorst) Sewell.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Columbia, 1883. Studied under Lefebvre and Boulanger, Paris, 1883-1887.

Career

Won 1st Hallgarten prize, National Academy Design, 1888. Silver medal, Buffalo Exposition for exhibit of designs of mural paintings, et cetera His mural painting, The Canterbury Pilgrims, in great hall of Georgian Court, Lakewood, and several others are widely known.

Painted The Story of Psyche, a series of lunette decorations of the Palm Room of the Saint Regis Hotel, New New York A.N.A., 1902.

Home: Oyster Bay, Long Island, New New York

Achievements

• Robert Van Vorst Sewell has been listed as a notable painter by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Lydia Amanda Brewster, April.