Home › B › Brown (HENRY KIRKE an Amer- William)

Brown (HENRY KIRKE an Amer- William)

HENRY KIRKE an Amer- William Cullen ity, portrait busts of Wi Dr. Willard Parker, Erastus ican sculptor, born in Leyden, Mass., Feb. 24, 1814. He made the equestrian statue of Washington in Union Square, wood cemetery. The last named was the New York, the altar piece for the Church of the Annunciation in the same city, Corning, and other New York men, and the statue of De Witt Clinton in Green- •dency of the United States Bryant. D Horace Greeley in Louis, Dec. 13, BROWN BROWN human life generally. "Rab and His Friends," "Our Dogs," "Pet Marjory," "Jeems the Doorkeeper" on which his fame chiefly rests, have been published separately. He died in Edinburgh, in first bronze statue cast in the United States. Some of his other well known works are a statue of Lincoln in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, and equestrian statues of Gen. Scott and Nathanael Greene for the National Government, 1882. etc. He died in Newburgh, N. Y., July 10, 1886.