Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was a popular subject of American portraitists throughout his lifetime. French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon’s portrait bust has had the greatest impact in America because it was reproduced on the Jefferson dollar, minted in 1903 to commemorate the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase. For this work, Henry Saunders copied Houdon’s bust while still living in Philadelphia, where the artist would have been able to study a bronzed plaster cast of it in the collection of the American Philosophical Society.

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George Mifflin Dallas

Dr. Elisha Kent Kane

Howell T. Cobb

Hudson Maxim, 1921

Lincoln, ca. 1911

Benjamin Franklin, ca. 1906

Model for Seated Statue of James Smithson, 1904

Head of Marquis de Lafayette (Lafayette Monument, Paris, France), modeled 1899-1907

Major General John Watts De Peyster, modeled ca. 1897

Colonel De Heer Abraham De Peyster, modeled ca. 1893

Chester Arthur, before 1883?

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.