Artist

Henry Brintnell Bounetheau

born Charleston, SC 1797-died Charleston, SC 1877
Henry Brintnell Bounetheau, <i>Self Portrait</i>, 1867, watercolor on ivory, Smithsonian American Art Museum,Gift of Mrs. Henry Du Pré Bounetheau 1946.3.5.
Henry Brintnell Bounetheau, Self Portrait, 1867, watercolor on ivory, Smithsonian American Art Museum,Gift of Mrs. Henry Du Pré Bounetheau 1946.3.5.
Also known as
  • Henry Bounetheau
  • Henry B. Bounetheau
Born
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Died
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Biography

Born and lived in Charleston, South Carolina. Artist, teacher whose crayon portraits and miniature paintings were locally popular, but whose main occupation was accounting.

Charles Sullivan, ed American Beauties: Women in Art and Literature (New York: Henry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with National Museum of American Art, 1993)