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Frederick Boyer, Quartermaster, USN. (In Service, circa the 1820s - 1840s)

Frederick Boyer, subject of one of the earliest known portraits of a U.S. Navy enlisted man, served in the ship of the line USS Ohio while she was receiving ship at the Boston Navy Yard during the early 1840s. A contemporary described him as having had "Twenty years in the Navy".

This page features our only image of Quartermaster Frederick Boyer.


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Photo #: KN-583 (Color)

Quartermaster Frederick Boyer, USN

Oil on canvas, 29" x 24", by Henry C. Flagg (1811-1862). Painted circa 1840-1845.
See Photo # KN-583 (extended caption) for more information on this painting.

Painting in the U.S. Naval Academy Museum Collection. Transferred from the Boston Naval Library and Institute, 1921.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

Online Image: 55KB; 585 x 765 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-KN-583

 


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31 March 2000