Karl Ferdinand Wimar
19th-century German-American painter / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Karl Ferdinand Wimar (also known as Charles Wimar and Carl Wimar; 20 February 1828 – 28 November 1862), was a German-American painter who concentrated on Native Americans in the West and the great herds of buffalo.
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Karl Ferdinand Wimar | |
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Born | (1828-02-20)20 February 1828 Siegburg, Germany |
Died | 28 November 1862(1862-11-28) (aged 34) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
Occupation | Painter |
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He is known for an early painting of a colonial incident: his The Abduction of Boone's Daughter by the Indians (1855–56), a depiction of the 1776 capture near Boonesborough, Kentucky of Jemima Boone and two other girls by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party.