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Friedrich August Ferdinand Pettrich (1798 – 14 February 1872) was a German sculptor active in Germany, Brazil, the United States, and Italy.
He was an internationally famous portrait sculptor who created busts of political figures in Washington D.C. as well as Native Americans such as
Vatican biography
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Biography listing
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Note
in 1892 Corcoran Gallery of Art catalog
Friedrich August Ferdinand Pettrich (1798 – 14 February 1872) was a German sculptor active in Germany, Brazil, the United States, and Italy.
He was an internationally famous portrait sculptor who created busts of political figures in Washington D.C. as well as Native Americans such as Tecumseh
Tecumseh ( ; October 5, 1813) was a Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. A persuasive orator, Tecumseh traveled widely, forming a Native American confederacy and ...
. In the early 1840s he moved to Brazil to become the Court Sculptor to Emperor Dom Pedro II
Don (honorific), Dom PedroII (2 December 1825 – 5 December 1891), nicknamed "the Magnanimity, Magnanimous" ( pt, O Magnânimo), was the List of monarchs of Brazil, second and last monarch of the Empire of Brazil, reigning for over 58 years. ...
.
Life
Born inDresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...
to sculptor Franz Pettrich, court sculptor to Elector Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, Pettrich studied in Rome under Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen (; 19 November 1770 – 24 March 1844) was a Danes, Danish and Icelanders, Icelandic Sculpture, sculptor medallist, medalist of international fame, who spent most of his life (1797–1838) in Italy. Thorvaldsen was born in ...
. After achieving fame in Europe, in 1835 Pettrich and his wife moved to the United States, first in Philadelphia
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...
, then Washington, D.C.
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Pettrich died in Rome in 1872.
Sculptures by Pettrich
* ''The Dying Tecumseh'' * ''Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren ( ; nl, Maarten van Buren; ; December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862) was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the eighth president of the United States from 1837 to 1841. A primary founder of the Democratic Party (Uni ...
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* ''John Vaughan (wine merchant)
John Vaughan (15 January 1756 – 30 December 1841) was a wine merchant, philanthropist, and long-time treasurer and librarian of the American Philosophical Society. A native of England, Vaughan settled in Philadelphia in 1782, becoming a respec ...
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* ''Washington Resigning His Commission''
* ''Mrs. Frederich Augustus Ferdinand Pettrich''
* ''Self-Portrait''
* ''William Norris''
* ''Our Lady of the Confederacy'' in the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist (Charleston)
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See also
Vatican biography
at fada.com
Biography listing
at
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Note
in 1892 Corcoran Gallery of Art catalog
References
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