Name: Henry Kirke Brown (1814-1886)
Brand: Thomas Jefferson
Price: 16000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Henry Kirke Brown (1814-1886)
Thomas Jefferson
inscribed 'HK Brown.IX.Br. 1852' (on the underside of the truncation)
bronze with brown patina
diameter, 10 in. (25.4 cm.)
Modeled in 1852.

Dr. Francis Xavier Deroin, Chicopee, Massachusetts.
By descent to the present owner.

G.B. Opitz, Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to the Present, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1984, p. 480, another example illustrated.
M.E. Shapiro, Bronze Casting and American Sculpture, 1850-1900, Newark, Delaware, 1985, pp. 54, 154.

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Henry Kirke Brown is best known for his equestrian statue of George Washington of 1856 in Union Square, New York. In 1852, he completed profile portraits of three American founding fathers, including Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. An unidentified number of unmarked examples were cast by the Ames Manufacturing Company, Chicopee, Massachusetts, including the present example.