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Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone Oil on canvas
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Oil on canvas by Chester Harding, 1820

54.5 cm x 42 cm; in frame 70.5 cm x 57.7 cm x 3.5 cm

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[ This description is from the project: MHS 225th Anniversary ]

Chester Harding's painting of Daniel Boone is the only known portrait of this legendary frontiersman painted from life. Harding, a self-taught young artist just beginning his career, sought Boone out at his home in Missouri and asked him to sit for this portrait.