'Roman Law, Justinian' by Henry Kirke Brown. Justinian (b. 483– d. 565) codified Roman Law in 529. He was a Byzantine emperor.
Henry Kirke Brown
(b. 1814 Leyden, MA d. Newburg, NY 1886)
was an American sculptor, who first studied painting in Boston with Chester Harding. Brown worked summers as a railroad engineer in order to save money to continue his education. He was in Italy from 1842-46. He was one of the first American sculptors to cast his own bronzes. He lived in Albany, New York, for a time, sculpting busts of the local gentry. Afterwards, he settled in New York City. He was the creator of the first Western bronze. Brown got written descriptions of American Indians from the Western painter George Catlin, and he traveled to Indian settlements in Michigan where he made sketches. For his statue 'The Choosing of the Arrow,' he used an Italian boy as his model.In 1850, in his Brooklyn studio, he made a statue of 'De Witt Clinton' and the Angel of the Resurrection' for Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn. During his career, he executed important equestrian statues; 'George Washington' in Union Square Park, was the first sculpture (1856) purchased by the New York City Parks Department. The sculpture pays homage to the antique Roman sculpture of Marcus Aurelis on Capitoline Hill in Rome. Brown also made the statues of Abraham Lincoln for Union Square and Prospect Parks. He was listed as architect of the War Department Building (1866-1867), Washington, DC. (also named was the architect named A. Fabor). Brown's equestrian General Winifred Scott in Washington, DC, was installed in 1874. Other works include his 'Nathaniel Greene', 'George Clinton', 'Philip Kearny', and 'Richard Stockton' (all in the National Statuary Hall, Capitol, and Washington, DC). Brown had two successful pupils: his nephew, Henry Kirke Bush-Brown (1857-1935), and John Quincy Adams Ward (1830-1910). He was a member of the National Academy of Design in New York.
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