Portraits of John Brown, Abraham Lincoln; battle flags for American Civil War military units
Spouse
Elizabeth Harriet Stevens Gray Bowser (1831–1908)
Relatives
Bustill family
David Bustill Bowser (January 16, 1820, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – June 30, 1900, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a 19th-century African-American ornamental artist and portraitist.[1] As the designer of battle flags for eleven African-American regiments during the American Civil War and painter of portraits of prominent Americans, including U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist John Brown, Bowser was an artist whose "works were the first widely viewed, positive images of African Americans painted by an African American," according to historians at the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.[2] Politically active throughout much of his adult life, he also helped to secure the post-war passage of key civil rights legislation in Pennsylvania.[3]
^*Lewis, Samella S. African American art and artists. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2003.
^"David Bustill Bowser Historical Marker," in "Explore PA History." Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, retrieved online February 23, 2019.
^"Pennsylvania Equal Rights League[permanent dead link]." Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Daily Evening Bulletin, August 15, 1867, p. 2.
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