Artist
Robert Newell
born Burlington, NJ 1822-died Philadelphia, PA 1897
- Also known as
- R. Newell
- Born
- Burlington, New Jersey, United States
- Died
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Nationalities
- American
- Biography
From 1855 to the mid-1890s, Newell recorded important events in Philadelphia, such as the 1864 Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission. His reputation as a landscape photographer persuaded Clarence Howard Clark, president of the banking and insurance firm, E. W. Clark and Company, to commission Newell to make a photographic portfolio of the family's West Philadelphia estate, Chestnutworld. the house no longer exists, but part of his vast property survives at Clark Park.
Merry A. Foresta American Photographs: The First Century (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art with the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996)