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Note.
The following is a memorandum of the known likenesses of
Sumner arranged as nearly as may be in chronological order:—
1. The earliest representation of any kind is
Crawford's bust, taken at
Rome in 1839, now in the
Boston Art Museum (
ante, vol.
II. pp. 94, 265).
2. Crayon drawing, by
Eastman Johnson in 1846, belonging to the
Longfellow family, and engraved for this Memoir (vol.
II.). It is held by the artist to have been a good likeness at the tine, but others express a doubt.
3. Crayon, by
W. W. Story; made from sittings in 1851 at the request of the seventh
Earl of
Carlisle, with some final touches from
Seth W. Cheney, as Story left for
Europe before it was quite finished (
ante, vol.
III. p. 64; IV. p. 261). It has been kept at Castle
Howard,
Yorkshire; it is a good likeness, and represents
Sumner at his best, in the fulness and strength of manhood.
Prescott wrote to
Sumner in January, 1852: ‘You cannot expect a better likeness in every sense.’
It was lithographed by
S. W. Chandler before it was sent to
England.
Epes Sargent wrote of the print, which was published in 1854, that it was a capital likeness, and that nothing could be better.
The biographer has a copy of a photograph of the picture, taken at
York since the senator's death.
4. Daguerreotype, by
Southworth and
Hawes, of
Boston, in 1853; taken for, and owned by, the biographer, and engraved for this Memoir (vol.
i.).
5. Daguerreotype, taken a few months later at
Lowell; owned by
Mrs. W. S. Robinson.
6. Portrait, by
Walter M. Brackett; painted from sittings in 1854, and now in the custody of
Edward A. Presbrey,
Brookline.
7. Portrait, by
W. Wight; painted in the winter of 1856-1857, and given to the
Boston Public Library in 1874; has been engraved by
S. A. Schoff.
The engraving does not follow the portrait closely, and is thought better than the portrait.
8. Portrait, by
Wellman Robinson; painted in 1856, now belonging to Harvard College.
9. Photograph, taken in
London in 1857 for the late
Henry Richard, M. P. (
ante, vol.
III. p. 547).
10. Portrait, by
W. Willard; painted in twenty-one sittings in August and September, 1865, and still in
Mr. Willard's possession at
Sturbridge, Mass. The artist made a copy in 1877, which is owned by
Thomas Mack, of
Boston.
He also painted the head for
Abraham Avery.
11. Bust, by
E. A. Brackett; given to Harvard College in 1857.
12. Bust, by
M. Milmore; finished late in 1865 (
ante, vol.
IV. p. 199), and greatly commended at the time by
Wendell Phillips,
W. M. Hunt,
John T. Sargent,
F. V. Balch, and
Lydia Maria Child (see her ‘Letters,’ p. 187). The original was placed in the
State House,
Boston, and the artist's reproduction of it was given by the
State of Massachusetts to
George William Curtis in recognition of his eulogy on the senator.
This copy has been on exhibition at the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York.
A picture of the bust is given in Harper's Weekly, June 20, 1874.
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13. Medallion, by
Margaret Foley; taken from sittings in 1865, and given by the family of
James T. Furness to Harvard College.
14. Photographs, by Black of
Boston; one reproduced in Harper's Weekly, March 24, 1866; and another in 1869, reproduced in Harper's Weekly, March 28, 1874, and engraved in
Sumner's Works.
15. Photograph, by
Brady of
Washington, in 1869; reproduced in ‘Every Saturday,’ March 4, 1871 (a weekly newspaper published in
Boston), in ‘Memorial History of
Boston,’ vol.
III. p. 391, and in this Memoir (vol.
III.).
16. Photographs, by
Warren of
Cambridge, about 1870-1871,—one standing, one sitting with a cane, one holding a French newspaper, and one reproduced in the Memorial volume published by the city of
Boston in 1874.
17. Portrait, by
William M. Hunt, not from sittings, but following
Allen and
Rowell's photograph.
18. Portrait, by
Edgar Parker, for which sittings were given in
Boston in 1873.
Mr. Parker painted three portraits,—one now belonging to the city of
Boston, another to the
Wallace Public Library of
Fitchburg, and the third still belonging to one of the artist's relatives.
19. Two unfinished portraits, by William Page, for which sittings were given in New York in 1872 or 1873.
20. Photograph, by
Allen and
Rowell of
Boston, the last ever taken, made late in 1873; is reproduced in the Memorial volume printed by the
State in 1874, and in this Memoir (vol.
IV.), and has been engraved by the treasury department at
Washington.
The photographers have also issued it enlarged.
21. Full-length portrait, by
Henry Ulke, for which sittings were given in
Washington in 1873-1874; last likeness from life.
It was ordered by Hayti in recognition of the senator's opposition to the
San Domingo annexation, and now hangs in the
Senate chamber in the Haytian capitol.
The artist painted two other portraits at the same time, all three alike representing
Sumner speaking in the Senate,—one full-length and owned by
John B. Alley, of
Lynn; and the other three-quarters in length, and given by
James Wormley to the
State of Massachusetts.
This last hangs in the State Library (Senate Doc., 1884, Nos. 272, 323; Boston Transcript, Sept. 27, 1883).
22. Various busts and statues in plaster, offered for a bronze statue, for which Thomas Ball's design was accepted.
The statue was erected in the
Public Garden in
Boston in 1878.
The oil paintings of
Sumner were generally unsatisfactory.
Those by
Ulke, however, represent well his figure, dress, and attitude in debate, and give a better idea of him in his later years than any other paintings.
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