Biografie von Harrison Lorenzo PLUMER (1814-?)

Birth place: Haverhill, MA

Addresses: London, 1837-45; New Orleans, active 1859-66

Profession: Portrait and genre painter

Exhibited: Boston Athenaeum, 1837; Royal Academy, London (between 1837 and 1845, as H.L. Plummer); Victorin Guette's store, 1859

Comments: While in New Orleans he advertised (1859) that he could paint an oil portrait in five hours.

Sources: G&W; Perley, The Plumer Genealogy, 185; Swan, BA; Graves, Dictionary; Delgado-WPA cites Bee, March 2, 1859. More recently, see Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists (under Harrison Lorenzo Plummer).