Edmund Pendleton Gaines

After the War of 1812, General Edmund Pendleton Gaines was promoted to major general and received a gold medal for his service. During the Mexican War, he was court-martialed for failing to obey orders, but the charges were dropped after he defended his patriotism. This bust was modeled at the request of General Memucan Hunt, a soldier and politician who also sat for Hiram Powers. After the sculpture was completed, Powers described how General Gaines “brought a bevy of ladies . . . to look at his bust . . . and did everything but gobble while they praised it.”

À propos de la sculpture

Notice

Dans la même salle · Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor, 17B, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Sur le même thème · Occupations

Oui, elle reçoit

Ce qu’elle montre

Au catalogue

Sources

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

Duc et Duchess de Brabant, 1926

Shipping Coffee, Champerico, Guatemala, 1875, published 1877

(Study for "Labor"), ca. 1870

Head of the Artist, n.d.

A Passage from the Papers, 1887

Max Weyl, ca. 1875

Co-ee-há-jo, a Chief, 1838

Marie Antoinette, n.d.