John Sowden

John Sowden (1838–1926) was a watercolourist based in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.

[3][4] He is known for painting of local Bradford dignitaries and a series of pictures depicting street characters in the city.

In the early 1860s, Sowden established his own studio in Stirling Street, off Manchester Road in Bradford, producing landscape and portrait pictures.

He established a partnership with George Brown, a Bradford clothier and tailor, and became an early developer of the Eastbrook estate, which became known as "Little Germany".

In 1921, Sowden donated a collection of 358 portraits, together with handwritten biographical notes about the "Worthies", to the Bradford Museum.