Daniel Boone

**Daniel Boone**
	American pioneer and frontiersman (1734–1820) Portrait of Daniel Boone by Chester Harding, 1820
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Name in native language	Daniel Boone;
Date of birth	2 November 1734; Oley Valley (Province of Pennsylvania, British America)
Date of death	26 September 1820; Daniel Boone Home (Missouri Territory)
Place of burial	Frankfort Cemetery;
Country of citizenship	United States of America;
Occupation	explorer; politician; hunter; traveler;
Position held	member of the Virginia House of Delegates;
Field of work	Q45099716;
Father	Squire Boone;
Mother	Sarah Morgan;
Sibling	Squire Boone;
Child	Daniel Morgan Boone; Susanna Hays; Jesse Boone; Jemima Callaway;
Spouse	Rebecca Boone;
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English: Daniel Boone (1734 – 1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman, who blazed the trail known as the "Wilderness Road".

Chester Harding portraits of Boone

In 1820, Chester Harding painted Daniel Boone from life. From the original oil sketch he made two more busts and a full-length portrait. Harding was probably the only artist to paint Boone from life; many other depictions of Boone are adapted from Harding's work. Painted three or four months before his death, Boone was so frail that he had to be steadied by a friend while the artist worked.

The original 1820 oil sketch by Harding from which his other portraits were made. (Massachusetts Historical Society)
Remnant of a full-length 1820 portrait. Since the original aged poorly, in 1861 Harding cut out the head and placed it on a new canvas.
Black and white photograph of a Harding portrait, perhaps the same image as the painting to the left, although the nose and mouth seem slightly different.
Portrait of Boone by Chester Harding, 1820 (Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky)
This Harding portrait was, according to tradition, given to General Daniel Bissell by Daniel Boone.

Derivatives of the Harding portrait

Engraving of Daniel Boone by James Longacre (1835), from painting by Chester Harding
Engraving by James Otto Lewis, based on a 1820 painting by Chester Harding, is the only remaining version of the original full-length portrait.
Engraving of The elderly Daniel Boone hunting in Missouri by Alonzo Chappel (c. 1861)
Another version of the Chappel engraving, with Boone autograph at bottom

Other works

Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap by George Caleb Bingham, 1851-1852
The Abduction of Daniel Boone's Daughter by the Indians, Charles Ferdinand Wimar, 1853
Illustration from the book Daniel Boone and the Hunters of Kentucky by W.H.Bogart, 1854
John James Audubon claimed to have met Daniel Boone circa 1810, and then later painted this portrait from memory. Some have doubted his story, and so this may be a derivative of a Harding portrait.