Born in Medford, Massachusetts, Isaac Fowle was a link from Boston's 18th-century carving tradition to the nineteenth century. He made one of Boston's best-known ship's figureheads, "Lady with a Scarf," which for some years was his shop sign to illustrate his carving abilities.
Fowle apprenticed to Simeon Skillin Jr. and worked for several years on Skillins' Wharf in partnership with Edmund Raymond after Skillin died. By 1813, he was listed in the Boston city directories as a Carver at 3 (showing 500 of 922 characters). |
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