Daniel Boone
American settler (1734-1820)
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Date of birth | 2 November 1734 Birdsboro (Province of Pennsylvania, British America, near) | ||||
Date of death | 26 September 1820 Daniel Boone Home | ||||
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English: Daniel Boone (1734 – 1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman, who blazed the trail known as the "Wilderness Road".
Chester Harding portraits of Boone
editIn 1820, Chester Harding painted Daniel Boone from life. From the original oil sketch he made two more busts and a full-length portrait. Harding was probably the only artist to paint Boone from life; many other depictions of Boone are adapted from Harding's work. Painted three or four months before his death, Boone was so frail that he had to be steadied by a friend while the artist worked.
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The original 1820 oil sketch by Harding from which his other portraits were made. (Massachusetts Historical Society)
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Remnant of a full-length 1820 portrait. Since the original aged poorly, in 1861 Harding cut out the head and placed it on a new canvas.
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Black and white photograph of a Harding portrait, perhaps the same image as the painting to the left, although the nose and mouth seem slightly different.
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Portrait of Boone by Chester Harding, 1820 (Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky)
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This Harding portrait was, according to tradition, given to General Daniel Bissell by Daniel Boone.
Derivatives of the Harding portrait
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Engraving of Daniel Boone by James Longacre (1835), from painting by Chester Harding
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Engraving by James Otto Lewis, based on a 1820 painting by Chester Harding, is the only remaining version of the original full-length portrait.
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Engraving of The elderly Daniel Boone hunting in Missouri by Alonzo Chappel (c. 1861)
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Another version of the Chappel engraving, with Boone autograph at bottom
Other works
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Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap by George Caleb Bingham, 1851-1852
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The Abduction of Daniel Boone's Daughter by the Indians, Charles Ferdinand Wimar, 1853
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Illustration from the book Daniel Boone and the Hunters of Kentucky by W.H.Bogart, 1854
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John James Audubon claimed to have met Daniel Boone circa 1810, and then later painted this portrait from memory. Some have doubted his story, and so this may be a derivative of a Harding portrait.
Commemorative coins
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1938 Daniel Boone bicentennial commemorative half dollar, obverse
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1938 Daniel Boone bicentennial commemorative half dollar, reverse
Modern Derivatives
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A digital touch-up of the Chester Harding 1820 portrait background image, exposing his head facial features.