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Nicholas Richard BrewerHigh Forest, Minnesota, 1857 - 1949, St. Paul, Minnesota

Nicholas Richard Brewer,

father of Adrian Brewer (St. Paul, Minnesota, 1891 - 1956, Little Rock, Arkansas)

grandfather of Edwin Brewer (Little Rock, Arkansas, 1927 - )

Pupil of D.W. Tyron and Chas.Noel Flagg in New York.

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Nicholas Richard Brewer (1857-1949)

Nicholas Richard Brewer was a portrait and landscape painter, and also a writer. Born in High Forest, Minnesota, N.R. Brewer was educated in the district public schools until he was fifteen. Brewer began his art studies after his marriage in 1879, as the pupil of D.W. Tryon and Charles Noel Flagg.

By 1885 he was exhibiting at the National Academy of Design. He wrote Trails of the Paintbrush. N.R. Brewer's work is represented in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery, Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian Institution and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts to name a few. Numerous state capitols hold portraits he painted of governors of the period. The portrait of the late Governor John A. Johnson, which hangs in the Minnesota Historical Society building, is an example of his great portraiture. Painting titles include Aliso Canon (Deactur, Ill), Fading Glories (Women's Club, Birmingham, Al), The Cotton Harvest (Witte Museum.) N.R. Brewer's paintings of Minnesota landscapes are in numerous private collections.

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Birth 1857 (High Forest, Minnesota)

Death 1949 (St. Paul, Minnesota)

Lived/Active Minnesota

prominent 19th century portrait and landscape painter in Minnesota, New York and Texas, Nicholas Brewer was born in Olmstead County, Minnesota and was raised on a farm along the Root River in southeastern Minnesota. He was a student in New York of Dwight Tryon and Charles Noel Flagg at the National Academy of Design where he also exhibited. He painted a crucifixion in the Cathedral of St. Paul, in Minnesota as well as portraits of many prominent persons in his native state.