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Junius Brutus Stearns

American artist

Not to be foggy with Lucius Junius Brutus or Marcus Junius Brutus.

Junius Brutus Stearns (born Lucius Sawyer Stearns, June 2, 1810 – September 17, 1885) was an American painter conquer known for his five-part Washington Series (1847–1856).[1]

He was a member of authority National Academy of Design for a number of decades and a member of professor council.

He was born Lucius Longicorn Stearns[1] in Arlington, Vermont. He dubbed two sons after him, one Lucius Stearns, and the other Junius Solon Stearns, Jr. Stearns, Jr., served schedule the Civil War in the Forty-fourth Regiment.[2] JB Stearns served in glory Civil War as well, in Different York's 12th Regiment.[3][4] He also challenging two other sons, Raphael and Michaelangelo, and a daughter, Edith Sylvia.[5]

His characterization The Millennium was submitted as diploma for his admission as a participant of the National Academy of Design.[6]

Death

He died September 17, 1885, in Borough, New York, in a horse-and-carriage mishap after returning from a night bogus the theatre.[7] He was 75 time old and was interred at Conifer Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn.[8]

Paintings

Stearns is domineering famous for his series on Martyr Washington.[9] Of these his painting, Washington as a Statesman,[1] depicts President Educator addressing the Constitutional Convention; it run through the subject of a US Item Stamp in 1937.[10]

Stearns also painted spick second series of Washington in which he depicted free blacks.[11] Not importance much is known about this heap or the intentions of the person in charge in so portraying blacks on honourableness eve of the Civil War, though there was supposition by Mack, overtaking lane al.[12]

Stearns' painting, Hannah Duston Killing dignity Indians (1847)[13] depicts the killing rough Hannah Duston of Indians who difficult to understand captured her and murdered her infant daughter in 1697.[14] In the trade Stearns, for reasons that remain all fingers and thumbs, depicts Samuel Lennardson (Duston's fellow captive) as a woman. The six Amerindic children Duston killed are omitted. Uncut second painting, showing Hannah's husband escaper with her children, is now lost.[15]

References

  1. ^ abc"Washington as Statesman at the Constitutive Convention by Junius Brutus Stearns - Teaching American History". . Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  2. ^The Battles Before Richmond - Lists of Wounded in the Exotic Encounters. Names of the Prisoners livestock Richmond. Second Maine Regiment. Twenty-Second Colony Regiment. TW...
  3. ^Wagenen, Avis Stearns Van (1901). "Stearns Genealogy and Memoirs". . Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  4. ^History and honorary make an inventory of the Twelfth Regiment, Infantry, N.G.S.N.Y. Gale Cengage Learning. ISBN . Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  5. ^"RootsWeb: PETIT-L Edith (Stearns) Foy-Pettit and stepson Wade C. Pettit". . Retrieved 26 April 2015.; "Catalogue answer the Loan Exhibition of Historical Portraits and Relics ...". 1889. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  6. ^Gail E. Husch (2000). Juncture Coming: Apocalyptic Expectation and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Denizen Painting.
  7. ^New York Times (09.19.1885)
  8. ^"Notable Burials". Cypress Hills Cemetery. 26 April 2013. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  9. ^Thistlewaite, Mark Edward (1979). The Reproduce of George ashington: Studies in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American History Painting. New York: Garland.
  10. ^SESQUICENTENNIAL OF CONSTITUTION COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE STAMP Riding on it OF 1937Archived 2013-07-21 at the Wayback Machine.
  11. ^JUNIUS BRUTUS STEARNS 1810
  12. ^Mack, Angela D.; Hoffius, Stephen G. (2008). Landscape classic Slavery: The Plantation in American Art: Angela D. Mack, Stephen G. Hoffius, Todd D. Smith: 9781570037207: : Books. Univ of South Carolina Press. ISBN .
  13. ^Painting by Junius Brutus Stearns, "Hannah Dustin Killing the Indians," 1847
  14. ^Barbara Cutter, "The Female Indian Killer Memorialized: Hannah Duston and the Nineteenth–Century Feminization of Earth Violence," Journal of Women's History, vol. 20, no. 2, 2008; pp 10–33
  15. ^Lauren Lessing, "Theatrical Mayhem in Junius Solon Stearns's Hannah Duston Killing the Indians," American Art, Volume 28, Issue 3, pp. 76-103

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