Otto Boetticher

Otto Botticher (19 May 1811 – 1 July 1886) was a German-born painter and lithographer best known for his 1863 rendering of a baseball game at a prisoner of war camp during the American Civil War. That illustration, Union Prisoners at Salisbury, NC, was based on Botticher's experience as a prisoner at the camp in 1862. His occupation was listed on the ship's passenger list as "economist," and some sources speculate that he had served in the Prussian military, Many of Botticher's works depicted scenes in New York City and military subjects. In addition to working as an artist, he was a consular official for the North German Union.