Lot 330
After Ferdinand Friedrich August Pettrich (German, 1798-1872), "Portrait Bust of Andrew Jackson", inscribed 1836, carrara marble sculpture, height 24 1/2 in., width 15 1/2 in., depth 11 1/2 in. E8000-12000 Provenance: Mary Custis Lee / 17th Virginia Regiment #7 Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Alexandria, Virginia. Note: Ferdinand Pettrich studied in Rome as a young man with Bertel Thorwaldsen, the prominent Danish-born sculptor. In 1835 he and his wife arrived in Philadelphia. Scholars surmise that Pettrich moved to Washington in order to compete for government commissions; he met with Andrew Jackson in April of 1836, and the fidelity of the finished portrait suggests that he was granted several sittings. While further commissions proved scarce, his likenesses of Henry Clay, Martin Van Buren, and other prominent politicians were recorded in the newspapers. The original portrait survives in the collection of the Ursuline Convent, State St., New Orleans, and the known copies differ from it mainly in the stylized treatment of the hair. Reference: Several illustrations and a discussion of this important commission and the history of its known copies, including the present lot, appear in James G. Barber, Andrew Jackson: A Portrait Study, National Portrait Gallery & Tennessee State Museum, 1991, pp. 29, 102, 117, 126-7, figs. 89-91.
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