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Title: Artists of Abraham Lincoln portraits
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Bowser, David Bustill, 1820-1900 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents in art Painting, American African American painters Presidents
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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31 David Bustill Bowser (American, 1820-1900)Passmore Williamson, 1868 Oil on canvas, 26 % x 21 % inches (oval)Signed and dated at lower right: Bowser./1868 15,000 A commercial artist and painter of portraits and land-scapes, David Bustill Bowser was a descendant of CyrusBustill, one of Philadelphias earliest free black leaders. Alifelong resident of Philadelphia, Bowser was listed in thecity directories after 1871 as an artist, although he is occa-sionally referred to as a painter. Most of Bowsers workthat has survived is of a commercial or ornamental nature.He apparently did a large amount of work forPhiladelphias volunteer fire companies: an impressive fire-mans parade hat painted, with a phoenix in the midst offlames, is in the Atwater Kent Museum in Philadelphia.Ornamental artists also painted banners of all kinds, andthe Civil War brought Bowser this type of business; it islikely that he painted regimental banners for all or most ofthe black regiments that fought for the Union.

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