biografía de Richard OWEN (1810-?)

Lugar de nacimiento: probably at New Lanark (Scotland)

Direcciones: Indiana

Profesión: Landscape painter, draftsman

Comentarios: Came to America in 1827 and settled at New Harmony (IN), then under the direction of his father Robert Owen, the Scottish manufacturer and reformer. Richard later became a professor at Indiana University and helped illustrate some of the geological works of his brother, David Dale Owen (see entry).

Fuentes: G&W; Hendrickson, David Dale Owen; Owen, Report on Indiana; Peat, Pioneer Painters of Indiana.