THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
99 
Unknown Artist. (After Correggio.) 
MADONNA AND CHILD. 
On canvas, 21^ H., 15X 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. I., 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 i860. 
He also executed several noteworthy statues. 
MARBLE BUST OF PRESIDENT BUCPIANAN. 
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 10 % inches. 
