George Newell Bowers (1849 – 1909, active 1872–1906) was an American painter in Springfield, Massachusetts. Few details are known of Bowers' life. He worked as a druggist's clerk in Springfield, Massachusetts before leaving to study art at the Art Students League of New York in New York City, and then from 1874 to 1879 in the studio of

Léon Bonnat Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (20 June 1833 – 8 September 1922) was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Early life Bonnat was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 he lived in M ...

in Paris. He then returned as a painter to Springfield. After further study with the Art Student League, circa 1892 he became an impressionist landscape painter.

References

* Lee M. Edwards, Timothy Anglin Burgard, ''Domestic bliss: family life in American painting, 1840-1910'', page 132, Hudson River Museum, 1986.
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