John Adams Jackson
John Adams Jackson ( November 5, 1825 - August 30, 1878 ) was an American sculptor .
Life
John Adams Jackson received his first lessons in art from Johnston in Boston, then began his artistic activity in Paris in 1851 with a few portrait busts and worked in this subject with great success.
In 1828 he went to New York in order to now also turn to ideal sculpture. When he was commissioned to create a memorial for the North Pole driver Elisha Kent Kane in 1860 , the model met with general approval and was executed in bronze in Florence.
There he modeled the group Eva and the dead Abel (marble version in Philadelphia), which was hailed as a masterpiece by American critics.
Then followed a statue of autumn , an arching cupid , cupid on a swan and the guilty fairy .
He also created numerous portrait busts and medallions. In 1869 the statue of a reading girl was created ; In 1873 he exhibited a statue, Musidora (after James Thomson's seasons ) in Vienna .
In 1874 his iron war memorial was unveiled in Lynn (Massachusetts) , which depicts the city goddess with a laurel wreath in her hand, on the pedestal the figures of justice and war.
literature
- Jackson, John Adams . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 3 : Grinnell - Lockwood . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1887, p. 388 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Jackson, John Adams |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1825 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 30, 1878 |