John Crookshanks King
Portrait of J.Q. Adams by J.C. King, 1861; located in Faneuil Hall, Boston
John Crookshanks King (1806–1882) was a Scotland-born sculptor in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th-century. He created portraits of John Quincy Adams, Louis Agassiz, Robert Burns, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace Greeley, Walter Scott, Daniel Webster, Samuel B. Woodward and others.[1][2][3][4] Around 1852 he kept a studio in Boston's Tremont Temple.[5]
References
- ↑ Black. Scotland's mark on America. NY: Scottish Section of "America's Making," 1921
- ↑ "Smithsonian". Retrieved 2010-09-11.
- ↑ "MFA Boston". Retrieved 2010-09-11.
- ↑ Archive of Americana.; American broadsides and ephemera., Series 1
- ↑ Destructive Fire. Boston Daily Atlas; Date: 04-01-1852
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