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)
- Sperm whaling with its varieties
- The Battle of Lake Erie, Commodore O.H. Perry’s victory 1878
- J.C. Frémont major general of U.S. army
- Winfield Scott 1861
- Our generals 1862
- Bufford’s banner show cards no. 28 pug dog 1887
- New jail and keeper’s house, at South Boston, Mass.
- John Martin & Co., Sheffield, England. File and steel manufacturers & exporters of iron. W. Bailey Lang & Co. sole agents for America
- The Cally polka arranged by Allen Dodsworth
- Design of the original Washington Monument 1847
- Bufford’s fruit cards, no. 779-3 [plum] 1887
- Abraham Lincoln 1865
- Frederick Jones & Co’s. shoe factory, Plymouth, Mass.
- Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston, Mass. 1871
- Declaration of Independence
- Nathaniel P. Banks
- View in Manchester, Vt.
- Bufford’s fruit cards, no. 779-1 [pear] 1887
- Sorrows of boyhood – no. 1 – ‘I’ll tell the Master’ 1852
- The Ebbitt House, Washington City, D.C., U.S.A.