On view
Wilmerding Pavilion
Libby Anschutz Gallery
Andrew Jackson,
1834
Person depicted: Andrew Jackson, American, 1767–1845
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Handbook Entry
En route home to New York from Richmond, Virginia, where John Frazee had taken the likeness of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall, the sculptor modeled a clay bust of President Andrew Jackson at the White House. From the bust, a mold was created to cast replicas in plaster such as this one, now the only known example. Frazee must have hoped to attract a commission to reproduce the bust in marble, his favored medium, but none materialized, perhaps because his likeness, although striking and appealing, failed to emphasize Jackson’s most recognized feature — the long, narrow face consistently seen in other representations of "Old Hickory." Years later, in 1851, Frazee began a marble version on his own initiative, but illness prevented its completion before his death the following year.
Information
1834
- "Recent accessions", Record of the Museum of Historic Art, Princeton University 6, no. 1/2 (1947): p. 7., p. 7
- D.D. Egbert, "Head of Andrew Jackson by Frazee", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 7, no. 1 (1948): p. 3-4., p. 4 (illus.)
- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 29 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 288 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 340
