John Crookshanks King

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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

  1. ^ Black. Scotland's mark on America. NY: Scottish Section of "America's Making," 1921
  2. ^ "Smithsonian". Retrieved 2010-09-11.
  3. ^ "MFA Boston". Retrieved 2010-09-11.
  4. ^ Archive of Americana.; American broadsides and ephemera., Series 1
  5. ^ Destructive Fire. Boston Daily Atlas; Date: 04-01-1852

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