Henry Kirke Brown

Henry Kirke Brown ( born February 24, 1814 Leyden, Franklin County, Massachusetts, † July 10, 1886 in Newburgh, New York ) was an American sculptor.

Life

Henry K. Brown learned from 1832 to 1834 in Boston at a portrait painter, and then went to Cincinnati, where he devoted himself to sculpture and in 1837 his first marble bust created.

In order to acquire the means to take a trip to Italy in 1840 he took a job working for a railroad company, but reached only through the support of wealthy friends to the longed-for goal from him. For four years he trained in Italy continued, and in 1846 came back to America and settled in Brooklyn.

Here he created the bronze group of an Indian with a panther, the colossal bronze equestrian statue of George Washington in Union Square in New York City ( 1856), a colossal statue of Governor George Clinton, the statue of General Nathanael Greene for the Capitol in Washington and the equestrian statue of General Winfield Scott for the same city.

His main works include:

  • " Dr. George W. Bethune, " in Packer Institute, Brooklyn (1865 );
  • " Lincoln, " in Prospect Park, Brooklyn (1866 );
  • ". Gen. Nathanael Greene, " for the state of Rhode Iceland, presented to the National Gallery in the Capitol of Washington ( 1867);
  • " Lincoln, " in Union square, New York ( 1867-68 );
  • " Equestrian Statue ( equestrian statue ) of General Scott, " for the U.S. Government (1871 started ), is regarded as his best work;
  • " General George Clinton, " as a gift to the U.S. Government of the State of New York ( 1873);
  • " General Philip Kearny, " in Newark, NJ (1873 ), and " Richard Stockton, " for the state of of New Jersey (1874 );
  • "An Equestrian statue of Gen. Nathanael Greene. " For the Capitol in Washington DC ( 1875-77 );
  • " The Resurrection " (1877 ).

Because Kirke loved horses, the horsemen still images are considered to be particularly successful. He introduced the cast bronze, which he had seen in Italy.

Not to be confused with " Henry Kirk Bush - Brown" * in 1857, the son of Kirke Brown's sister, who was adopted by his wife at the age of 8 years.

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