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Sewell was born in New York in 1860 and moved to Paris to study with Jules Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger. His paintings attracted the attention of the architect Stanford White who began to collect his pictures, and he was commissioned to paint many decorative murals, inlcuding one at the St. Regis Hotel in New York depicting Psyche. The year L'Hiver was exhibited at the Salon, Sewell was joined by his compatriots Frederic Edwin Church, John Singer Sargent and Julius Stewart. In addition to exhibiting at the Salon, Sewell exhibited in Boston, St. Louis, Chicago and Buffalo and New York.