Portrait Of A Young Woman — Samuel Worcester Rowse

Portrait of a Young Woman

Admire Samuel Worcester Rowse’s "Portrait of a Young Woman," a captivating 19th-century black & white drawing. Explore its sketchiness, soft lighting & melancholic beauty.


samuel worcester rowse (1822 - 1901)

Samuel Worcester Rowse: Captivating American illustrator famed for Emerson & Thoreau portraits. Explore his lithographs & Boston art scene legacy.

A friend of Eastman Johnson"s, Rowse worked in a manner similar to that of the better-known artist and, like Johnson, preferred to draw with charcoal and pastel rather than graphite. Unlike Johnson, however, Rowse was principally a lithographer and is not known to have used his drawings as studies for paintings.