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

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