Samuel Worcester Rowse (January 29, 1822 - May 24, 1901) was an artist, engraver, and lithographer who spent most of his life and career in Boston, Massachusetts. Census records and obituaries disagree on whether he was born in Maine or New York, but he was raised and began his career in Maine. Though Rowse originally worked as an engraver, he moved to Boston in 1852 and opened a lithography studio. But he became best-known for pastel and charcoal portraits of leading intellectuals and political figures of the day. He traveled in the same intellectual circles as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and drew celebrated portraits of each. Rowse was also associated with the abolitionist movement, and produced a famous lithograph in 1850 titled 'The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia,' based on the story of an enslaved man who escaped to freedom by hiding in a box being mailed from Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia. Rowse traveled widely, relocating from Boston to New York in 1880, and briefly living in London and Paris at various points of his life.