biografía de Samuel HARRIS (1783-1810)

Lugar de nacimiento: Boston

Lugar de defunción: Boston

Direcciones: Boston

Profesión: Portrait draftsman and engraver

Obra: Am. Antiquarian Soc., Worcester, MA, (portraits in red chalk and charcoal)

Comentarios: Apprenticed at an early age to the Boston engraver, Samuel Hill (see entry), a relative, Harris published his first portrait in 1806. He showed great talent for languages and entered Harvard College as a junior in 1808, but drowned in the Charles River on July 10, 1810, while he was still a student.

Fuentes: G&W; Stauffer; Weis, Portraits in the Library of the Am. Antiq. Soc."; Fielding."