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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Books & Publications (8)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
American Naive Paintings (National Gallery Collection) (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Chotner, Deborah
668 pages (color)
American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Gallery of Art
545 pages
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
American Masterpieces (revised) from the National Gallery of Art
1988
Wilmerding, John
208 pages (color)
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860