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HENRY KIRKE BROWN (1814-1886)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 659 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY KIRKE BROWN (1814-1886)  ,
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American sculptor, was born in Leyden, Massachusetts, on the 24th of
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February 1814 . He began to paint portraits while quite a boy, studied
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painting in Boston under Chester Harding, learned a little about modelling, and in 1836–1839 spent his summers working as a railroad engineer to
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earn enough to enable him to study further . He spent four years (1842–1846) in Italy; but returning to New York he remained distinctively American, and was never dominated, as were so many of the early American sculptors, by
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Italian influence . He died on the roth of
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July 1886 at New-burgh, New York . His equestrian statues are excellent, notably that of General
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Winfield Scott (1874) in Washington, D.C., and one of George Washington (1856) in Union Square, New York City, which was the second equestrian statue made in the
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United States, following by three years that of Andrew Jackson in Washington by Clark Mills (1815–1883) . Brown was one of the first in
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America to cast his own bronzes . Among his other
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works are: Abraham Lincoln (Union Square, New York City);
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Nathanael Greene, George Clinton, Philip Kearny, and Richard Stockton (all in the
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National Statuary Hall, Capitol, Washington, D.C.); De Witt Clinton and " The
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Angel of the Resurrection," both in Greenwood cemetery, New York City; and an " Aboriginal Hunter." His
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nephew and pupil, Henry Kirke
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Bush-Brown (b . 1857), also became prominent among American sculptors, his "
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Buffalo Hunt," equestrian statues of Generals Meade and Reynolds at
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Gettysburg, and " Justinian " in the New York appellate court-house, being his chief works .

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