John H. Bufford's & Sons
Prolific 19th-century Boston lithography firm
John Henry Bufford was a lithographer in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. Bufford trained "in the Pendleton shop in Boston from 1829 to 1831." In 1835 he moved to New York, where he "worked independently for five years while accepting commissions from George Endicott and Nathaniel Currier." Bufford returned to Boston in 1839, and became "chief artist" in the print shop owned by Benjamin W. Thayer (who had bought the Pendleton outfit)." By 1844, the shop's name changed to J.H. Bufford & Co. (1844–1851)." By one assessment, "Bufford's firm produced lively, accomplished images in many forms, including sheet music, city views, marine views and landscapes, book illustrations, reproductions of paintings, commercial depictions of factories, and contemporary genre views; ... [and] lithographic portraits copied from daguerreotypes." Artists who worked for Bufford included Francis D'Avignon, Winslow Homer, and Leopold Grozelier. Clients included music publisher William H. Oakes. After Bufford's death in 1870, his sons Frank G. Bufford and John Henry Bufford, Jr. continued the business. By 1879, "J.H. Bufford's Sons, Manufacturing Publishers of Novelties in Fine Arts" worked from offices at 141-147 Franklin Street, Boston; and in 1881–1882 expanded the enterprise as far as New York and Chicago.
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Artworks by this artist (93 total)
- Our generals 1862
- Making up
- John C. Fremont 1856
- Bufford’s fruit cards, no. 779-3 [plum] 1887
- Central Baptist Church, Newport, R.I. 1879
- Bufford’s vegetable cards, no. 790-6 [cabbage] 1887
- Bufford’s fruit cards, no. 779-4 [apple] 1887
- View in Manchester, Vt.
- Gems of art – Washington – Lincoln
- Sorrows of boyhood – no. 1 – ‘I’ll tell the Master’ 1852
- Caricatures of popular songs 1875
- Major General Grant
- The Ebbitt House, Washington City, D.C., U.S.A.
- The coming step
- A view of the mansion of the late Lord Timothy Dexter in High Street, Newburyport, 1810
- Abraham Lincoln 1865
- Edward Chamberlin & Co’s concentrated leaven or bread powders 1860
- James A. Garfield 1881
- Market St. Portsmouth with its triumphal arches & grand procession of the sons of Portsmouth, July 4th, 1853 1853
- The Battle of Lake Erie, Commodore O.H. Perry’s victory 1878