Oil on board, 11.5" by 14", Signed LR
This portrait was commissioned by Sear’s business partner, Alpheus Hardy in 1875 who remarked it was an excellent likeness. Thanks to John f. McGuigan (Harpswell, Maine) for identifying the sitter and circumstances of it commissioning.
John Adams Jackson (November 5, 1825 — August 30, 1879) was a noted American sculptor.
Jackson was born in Bath, Maine, and apprenticed to a machinist in Boston, where he gave evidence of talent by modelling a bust of Thomas Buchanan Read. There he studied linear and geometrical drawing and produced crayon portraits. Going abroad in 1853, he visited Florence, where he created several portrait busts in marble, then went to Paris in 1854, where he studied academic life drawing at the Académie Suisse. In 1858 he went to New York City, remaining until 1860, when he moved to Florence, Italy, which was afterward his home.
Jackson's portrait busts include those of Daniel Webster (1851); Adelaide Phillips (1853); Wendell Phillips (1854); "Eve and the Dead Abel" (1862); "Autumn"; "Cupid Stringing his Bow"; "Titania and Nick Bottom"; "The Culprit Fay" (many times repeated); "Dawn" (repeated); "Peace"; "Cupid on a Swan"; "The Morning Glory" (a medallion repeated fourteen times); "Reading Girl" (1869); "Nusidora" (Vienna Exposition, 1873); "Hylas" (1875); and "Il Pastorello," an Abruzzi peasant-boy with his goat. He designed a statue of Dr. Elisha Kane, the arctic explorer, for the Kane monument association (1860); a group intended for the southern gate-house of the former Croton Lower Reservoir in Central Park, New York (1867, not installed);[1] and the Civil War soldiers' monument at Lynn, Massachusetts (1874).
Watercolor on paper, 21" by 14", "Making for Camp", Signed LL
Oil on board, 16" by 12", "New Westfield, NY, November 1933", Signed LL
Account of Nicholas Schuyler
Does anyone recognize origin of this head?