Bowen was born in New York in 1790.[1] Arriving in Boston in 1812, he worked as a printer for the Columbian Museum, at the time under the proprietorship of his uncle, Daniel Bowen.[2] In 1814 Abel married Eliza Healey of Hudson, New York.[3] Their children included Abel Bowen (d.1818).[4]
With W.S. Pendleton he formed the firm of Pendleton & Bowen, which ended in 1826.[5] He joined the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association in 1828.[6] In the 1830s Bowen and others formed the Boston Bewick Company, which published the American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge. He lived and worked in Congress Square, ca.1823-1826;[7] in 1832 he kept his shop on Water Street, and lived on Union Street;[8] in 1849 he worked on School Street, and lived in Chelsea.[9]
^Frank Weitenkampf (1912). American Graphic Art. H. Holt and Company.
^Potter's American Monthly, 1873
^"Miniature portraits of the Marquis Lafayette", Boston Commercial Gazette, Aug 23, 1824
Further reading
Joseph Sabin, ed. (1869). "Bowen". Bibliotheca Americana. Vol. 2. New York. OCLC 13972268.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
William H. Whitmore (1887), "Abel Bowen", Bostonian Society Publications, vol. 1
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Abel Bowen.
WorldCat. Bowen, Abel 1790-1850
Young Ladies' Book, excerpts. 1830.
American paintings & historical prints from the Middendorf collection, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Bowen (no. 74)