Charles Thomas Bowen

Date1850

DimensionsSight: 33 × 27 1/2 in. (83.8 × 69.9 cm)

Object numberN0222.1959

Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Museum Purchase

Photograph by Richard Walker

Label TextCharles Thomas Bowen was born February 26, 1838 in Oneida County, New York, son of Thomas and Susan Juliette Newkirk Bowen. After the death of his father in 1838, Charles and his mother moved to her parents' home in Washington Mills, New York. The following year, his mother remarried and moved away with her husband. Charles stayed behind in Washington Mills to be raised by his grandparents. In May of 1861 the subject married Catherine Lillian Hammond. During the Civil War, Bowen served in the infantry, raising to the rank of sergeant. Afterwards, he returned to his wife in Washington Mills where he died of tuberculosis in 1874. He is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery in Utica, New York.
BibliographyPaul S. D’Ambrosio and Charlotte M. Emans, Folk Art’s Many Faces: Portraits in the New York State Historical Association (Cooperstown, NY, 1987), p. 28, ill. 5.

Agnes Halsey Jones, Rediscovered Painters of Upstate New York, (Utica: Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, 1958), p.25.

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