Hiram Powers

Hiram Powers is perhaps the most famous American neoclassical sculptor. Born near Woodstock, Vermont, he moved to Cincinnati, where he modeled waxworks for Joseph Dorfeuille’s Western Museum. His naturalistic portrait bust of Andrew Jackson (1834–1835, Metropolitan Museum of Art) earned him a national reputation and the support of the American sculptor Horatio Greenough, who funded Powers’s travel abroad in 1837; Powers lived and worked in Florence, Italy, from 1837 until his death in 1873.