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Daniel Boone
Photographer: Chester Harding
Caption: Daniel Boone
Additional Description: This portrait of Daniel Boone (1820 and 1860) by Chester Harding hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.

When the young artist Chester Harding first encountered Daniel Boone on the Missouri frontier in June 1820, the legendary frontiersman was cooking venison wrapped on a ramrod over a fire. On learning that the artist had come to paint his portrait, Harding said, he “hardly knew what I meant.” Nevertheless he agreed to pose. The Gallery’s recently acquired version of Harding’s Boone was originally a full-length image, which later became severely damaged. But the face remained unscathed, and in 1860 Harding mounted it on a fresh canvas, where he made it the focal point of a simpler head-and-shoulders likeness. -- National Portrait Gallery
Submitted: May 1, 2019, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p473044
File Size: 0.526 Megabytes

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