The bust possibly represents the mother of Gen. James Bowen (1808-1886). It came from the library of his home at Hastings-on-Hudson.

The sculptor of this piece was probably Samuel Joseph (ca. 1795-1850), an English artist active in London from 1826 until his death.

Howard Roberts's marble statue of Robert Fulton was completed and placed in the U.S. Capitol in 1899.

Owned by H.A. MacNeil 121-01 5th Ave, College Point, L.I.

While traveling in Paris as an art broker, James Steele MacKaye (1842-1885) encountered photosculpture, a mechanical method of three-dimensional prototyping invented by artist Francois Willeme in 1859. MacKaye purchased the U.S. patent in 1867 and co-founded the American Photosculpture Company of New York City.

Subjects posed on a circular platform that was marked off into twenty-four sections; twenty-four surrounding cameras took photographs simultaneously. Clay, similiarly centered on a rotating circular platform, could then be sculpted by serially tracing the photograph silhouettes using a pantograph outfitted with a clay saw.

General Ulysses S. Grant was friends with MacKaye's father, Colonel James M. MacKaye, and the connection led to him being the first sitter. During the two years it was in business, the company also created photosculptures of Admiral David Farragut and Horace Greely.

Characters in Charles Dicken's "Barnaby Rudge", Joe Willet and Dolly Varden. Inspired by the Rogers groups and mass-produced in Bennington, VT in Parian ware and plaster. [cf: Craven, "Sculpture in America," p.393. sbs 6/6/07]

The twenty-sixth president of the United States, born in New York, was the son of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., and Martha (Bullock) Roosevelt. The subject graduated from Harvard in 1880. Thereafter he studied law and soon entered politics, being elected to the state assembly in 1882. From 1889 to 1895 Roosevelt was state civil service commissioner and from 1895 to 1897 was police commissioner of New York City. After serving briefly as assistant secretary of the navy, he accepted the rank of lieutenant colonel in a volunteer corps and won nationwide attention as the daring leader of the "Rough Riders" in Cuba during the war with Spain. He was elected governor of New York in 1898 and then vice-president on the Republican ticket under William McKinley in 1900. When the latter was assassinated during his second term, Roosevelt succeeded him as president, and won his own term in the office in 1904. He refused to be nominated for another tem in 1908 and went on his famous safari to Africa (1909-10). Upon his return to America he entered the national political arena again but lost the nomination to William Howard Taft in 1912. He then organized the Progressive or Bull Moose party. He was a member of The New-York Historical Society from 1881 until his death at Oyster Bay, New York. This is a replica of the original bust in Roosevelt House, the subject's birthplace at 28 East 20th Street which is operated as a museum by the Theodore Roosevelt Association. It was modeled the year following Roosevelt's death, the artist relying upon photographs for his likeness. Derujinsky, born in 1888 in Smolensk, Russia, studied sculpture in Paris with Verlet and Injalbert, and came to America sometime after World War I. He was a member of the National Sculpture Society and his work was exhibited at a one-man show at the Knoedler Gallery in London in 1928.

This figure was probably part of an ensemble representing the four parts of the world.

CAP, cat # 288