Category:William Samuel Lyon Jewett

Not to be confused with the category: William Jewett — W. Jewett, painter and father.

William Samuel Lyon Jewett 

American painter and illustrator (1834-1876)
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Date of birth	May 1834
Date of death	23 July 1876
Place of burial	Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery
Country of citizenship	United States of America
Occupation	painter engraver illustrator
Father	William Jewett
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W. S. L. Jewett

The only child of William Jewett (c.1789-1874, see entry) and Mary Lyon Jewett. In 1859, while working as a correspondent for Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, he gained notoriety during the trial of John Brown when he was expelled from Charleston (VA, now WV) because he was suspected of being a correspondent for the New York Tribune. His engravings and sketches appeared in Harper's Weekly and Leslie's from 1859 to 1876, under the signature W.S.L.J. or W.J.; he also produced at least twenty of the portraits in Harper's History of the Great Rebellion. When his parents died in 1874, he came into an estate of about $150,000. Just two years later, suffering from depression, Jewett died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home. Jewett also is known to have painted portraits as a young man (these were in collections of his descendants as of 1957). Reference