Karl Ferdinand Wimar | |
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 Self portrait | |
| Born | 20 February 1828 Siegburg, Germany |
| Died | 28 November 1862 (aged 34) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Occupation | Painter |
Karl Ferdinand Wimar (also known as Charles Wimar and Carl Wimar; 20 February 1828 – 28 November 1862), was a German-American painter who concentrated on Native Americans in the West and the great herds of buffalo.
He is known for an early painting of a colonial incident: his The Abduction of Boone's Daughter by the Indians (1855–56), a depiction of the 1776 capture near Boonesborough, Kentucky of Jemima Boone and two other girls by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party.