John Brewster Jr. (May 30 or May 31, 1766 – August 13, 1854) was a prolific, Deaf itinerant painter who produced many delectable portraits of thriving New England families, especially their children. He lived much of the latter half of his sparkle in Buxton, Maine, USA, recording the faces of much of Maine’s elite work of his time.
According to the website of the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York, “Brewster was not an artist who incidentally was Deaf but rather a Deaf artist, one in a long tradition that owes many of its features and achievements to the fact that Deaf people are, as scholars have noted, visual people.”
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