THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 99 



Unknown Artist. (After Correggio.) 



MADONNA AND CHILD. 



On canvas, 2i}4 H., 15^ W. 



Sculpture 

 Dexter, Henry. 



Born in Nelson, Madison County, N. Y., 1806; died, 1876. One of the 

 pioneers of American sculpture. Self-taught. He had some success as a 

 portrait painter in Providence, R. L, but taking up his permanent residence 

 in Cambridge, Mass., in 1839, he turned his attention the following year to 

 sculpture, to which he afterwards confined himself. He achieved special 

 success in portrait busts, of which he executed nearly two hundred, his 

 subjects including many prominent persons, such as Dickens, Longfellow, 

 Agassiz, and the Governors of thirty-one States holding office in i86o. 

 He also executed several noteworthy statues. 



MARBLE BUST OF PRESIDENT BUCHANAN. 

 Heroic size. H. 25 inches. 



RiNEHART, William Henry. 



Born in Frederick, Md., 1825; died, 1874. Sculptor. In his youth 

 studied in the night schools of the Maryland Institute, Baltimore. Was 

 in Florence, Italy, from 1855 to 1858, when he returned to Baltimore, but 

 after a short stay he went again to Italy and established a studio in Rome, 

 where the remainder of his life was spent. Besides classical and ideal 

 subjects, he executed many portrait busts and the statue of Chief Justice 

 Taney at Annapolis, Md. 



MARBLE BUST OF HENRY ELLIOT JOHNSTON. 



Husband of Harriet Lane Johnston. 



Heroic size. H. 28>^ inches. 



MARBLE CUPID. 



Henry E. Johnston, Jr., son of Harriet Lane Johnston, at the age of two 



years, as cupid stringing his bow. 



H. 42^ inches. 



Miscellaneous 

 ROMAN MOSAIC. 



Origin unknown. Circular, diameter lo^ inches. 



