with Frederick Eckstein
Employed at Dorfeuille’s Western Museum (Cincinnati) creating animated wax figures
1829 – patron Nicholas Longworth funds move to New York
1834 – moves to Washington, DC; creates portrait busts of Andrew Jackson (1835, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY), John Marshall (1835, US Capitol, Washington, DC), and Martin van Buren (1837, New York Historical Society)
1837 –moves to Florence
1841 – begins work on the Greek Slave
1845 – Greek Slave is exhibited in London
1847 – Greek Slave tours American cities
1851 – Greek Slave shown at Great (Crystal Palace) Exhibition (London)
1855 – Greek Slave exhibited at Exposition universelle (Paris)
1859 –receives commissions for marble statues of Benjamin Franklin (1862) and Thomas Jefferson (1863) for the US Capitol
New York (1829); Washington, DC (1834); Italy (1837-1873)
US Government
Greek Slave, 1843 (original, Raby Castle, Durham; there are 6 copies) (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
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