William Russell Sweet

William Russell Sweet was an early American artist, painter and sculptor.

Biography

William Russell Sweet was known throughout the Narragansett, Rhode Island, area as "The Painter", because of his prolific art works in watercolor and oil paintings, many wall murals done for the Newport, Rhode Island, mansions, his restoration artwork, and his masterful wood carving of furniture and wall mounts.
Said to be "of gentle, good natured people" "I consider the Sweets a most remarkable family, not only as natural bone setters, but as an innocent inoffensive, easy going, happy people." William and his family spend many summer days along the coastline of Rhode Island where he sketched and painted pictorial scenes. On loan to South County History Center by his family, samples of William Russell Sweet carved wood chairs and wall plaques, some of his watercolors, and this magnificent hutch cabinet themed upon the classical poem "The Song of Hiawatha" from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His great-grandson, Carson Young Sweet Ferri Carson Grant has donated several other artworks to the Pettaquamscutt Historical Society Museum in Rhode Island. In 2010, William Russell Sweet was included in Marquis Who's Who edition Who was Who in America Art.