BIB_ID
188050
Accession number
MA 4500
Creator
Powers, Preston, 1842 or 1843-1904.
Display Date
1877 June 16.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.5 x 12.8 cm
Notes
Previously formed part of a collection of ca. 300 letters from English artists of the 19th century.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Requesting that he use his influence to secure employment for Powers as one of the artists commissioned by the legislature of New Hampshire to create statues to be sent to the Old Hall of Representatives in Washington [i.e. today's National Statuary Hall]; outlining his qualifications as an artist and student of his father, Hiram Powers, his responsibility for the completion of his father's unfinished statuary, his present commission from the state of Vermont to create a statue of Jacob Collamer for the House of Representatives, and including a list of notable Americans whose portraits he as executed as a sculptor.
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