Jerome Elwell's tastes were always refined.... He was deeply interested in art from the first, but instruction was not within everyone's reach in those days ... whether he ever received any instruction from Mr. [Fitz Hugh] Lane, the writer is not aware. He admired his work, and once said of a marine by Mr. Lane, "He painted that sky con amore, didn't he?"

Helen Mansfield, D. Jerome Elwell, no date

 

Burnt Ruins of Town House on Dale Avenue

At about six o'clock last Sunday morning, as Schooner Congress came into the inner harbor, her men discovered smoke proceeding from the Town Hall building. Hastily making the vessel fast, Capt. Warren and some of his crew ran up the street giving the alarm. The smoke had also been observed by Mr. Samuel O. Baldwin.... Upon coming into Warren Street, he heard a loud report, which was followed by a heavy volume of flame ...

The alarm now became general, and the fire department and a large concourse of citizens soon gathered. The sight presented was one of awful grandeur and sadness, and will not soon be forgotten.... It was clearly apparent that no early efforts could save the building from destruction, as the entire interior of the hall was one mass of seething flames ...

Cape Ann Advertiser, May 21, 1869

 

Artist: D. Jerome Elwell

Date of Work: 1869

Medium: Oil on canvas

Accession Number: 2211

Credit Line: Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Harold Bell, 1980

Collections: Land and Seascapes

 

 

 

 

Mackerel Fleet in Gloucester Harbor

Artist: D. Jerome Elwell

Collections: Fisheries & Maritime

 

 

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