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Otis, Bass (1784–1861)| US painter and lithographer. Considered the first American lithographer, he published a portrait of Reverend Abner Kneeland in a volume of lectures (1818). He also painted portraits of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. |
| Otis was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He began as a scythemaker, became a portrait painter in New York, New York (1808), and from 1812, lived in Philadelphia. |
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