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Charles V Bond BIOGRAPHY
Born 1825 Rutland, Vermont. Known for: Portrait, trompe still life paintings.
Charles V. Bond. Scattered references to Michigan academic portraitist Charles V. Bond have come to light, but his basic biography remains sketchy. Bond's place of birth, Rutland, Vermont, was... Read full biography
Charles V. Bond. Scattered references to Michigan academic portraitist Charles V. Bond have come to light, but his basic biography remains sketchy. Bond's place of birth, Rutland, Vermont, was discovered on a passport application of 1856 that lists his age as 29. An earlier application of 1844... Read full biography
Charles V. Bond. Scattered references to Michigan academic portraitist Charles V. Bond have come to light, but his basic biography remains sketchy. Bond's place of birth, Rutland, Vermont, was discovered on a passport application of 1856 that lists his age as 29. An earlier application of 1844 gives his age as 20, and a ship's passenger list of 1848 gives his age as 22. These inconsistencies make it impossible to assign his year of birth with any certainty other than around 1825. His father may... Read full biography
Charles V. Bond. Scattered references to Michigan academic portraitist Charles V. Bond have come to light, but his basic biography remains sketchy. Bond's place of birth, Rutland, Vermont, was discovered on a passport application of 1856 that lists his age as 29. An earlier application of 1844 gives his age as 20, and a ship's passenger list of 1848 gives his age as 22. These inconsistencies make it impossible to assign his year of birth with any certainty other than around 1825. His father may have been Eliel Bond, a hotel keeper in Eaton County, Michigan, or perhaps the proprietor of a road house near Hamtramck driving park, a nineteenth-century Detroit race course. Bond appears to have shown early promise as a portrait painter. An 1840... Read full biography
Charles V. Bond. Scattered references to Michigan academic portraitist Charles V. Bond have come to light, but his basic biography remains sketchy. Bond's place of birth, Rutland, Vermont, was discovered on a passport application of 1856 that lists his age as 29. An earlier application of 1844 gives his age as 20, and a ship's passenger list of 1848 gives his age as 22. These inconsistencies make it impossible to assign his year of birth with any certainty other than around 1825. His father may have been Eliel Bond, a hotel keeper in Eaton County, Michigan, or perhaps the proprietor of a road house near Hamtramck driving park, a nineteenth-century Detroit race course. Bond appears to have shown early promise as a portrait painter. An 1840 account of a visit to his studio attests to his "precocious genius in portrait painting" at the age of fifteen and anticipates that he wi... Read full biography
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Scattered references to Michigan academic portraitist Charles V. Bond have come to light, but his basic biography remains sketchy. Bond's place of birth, Rutland, Vermont, was discovered on a passport application of 1856 that lists his age as 29. An earlier application of 1844 gives his age as 20, and a ship's passenger list of 1848 gives his age as 22. These inconsistencies make it impossible to assign his year of birth with any certainty other than around 1825.
His father may have been Eliel Bond, a hotel keeper in Eaton County, Michigan, or perhaps the proprietor of a road house near Hamtramck driving park, a nineteenth-century Detroit race course. Bond appears to have shown early promise as a portrait pain...But wait, there's more...
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