Anna Hazard Barker Ward

In 1837, Boston-born Anna Hazard Barker toured Europe with friends. While there, she met her future husband Samuel Gray Ward, who worked for a British banking firm. When she visited Hiram Powers’s studio in Florence, he offered to model her portrait free of charge. He was still working on this when Anna returned to America, and so he asked her to have a cast taken of her face and sent to him for reference. Powers felt that her features embodied the essence of womanhood, and her portrait was the inspiration for his first ideal bust. The artist’s second daughter was born while he was working on this piece, and named Anna Barker Powers in honor of Powers’s friendship with Mrs. Ward.

Über die Skulptur

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Im selben Saal · Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor, 17B, Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Andrew Jackson

George Washington

The Greek Slave

Fisher Boy

Proserpine

Bust of "The Greek Slave"

America

California

Alma Hammond L'Hommedieu, 1872 or 1873

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, modeled 1869

Judge Alphonso Taft, 1869

Henry Barrett Crosby, 1869 or 1870

Caleb Fiske Harris, 1867

Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1867

Louisa Greenough Powers Ibbotson, 1862

Solomon Sturgis, modeled 1862

Madame Roulin and Her Baby, 1888

Garten in Sainte-Adresse, 1867

Condesa de Altamira and Her Daughter, María Agustina, 1787–88

Two Women on the Shore, 1898

Junge Frau mit Wasserkanne am Fenster, ca. 1662

Bildnis eines jungen Mädchens, ca. 1665–67

Gegrüßt seist du, Maria, 1891

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678), ca. 1635