Browere's Life Masks of Great Americans

Originally published in 1899.

Browere's Life Masks of Great Americans is a rediscovery of the works of the artist, John Henri Isaac Browere, and provides a true history of plastic art in America. John Henri Isaac Browere (1790-1834) was an artist in New York in the early 19th century. He created life masks of Thomas Jefferson, Gilbert Stuart, Lafayette, John Quincy Adams, Edwin Forrest, Issac Van Wart, John Paulding, David Williams and other notables.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Proem

I The Plastic Art

II The Plastic Art in America

III John Henri Isaac Browere

IV The Captors of Andr

V Discovery of the Life Mask of Jefferson

VI Three Generations of Adamses

VII Mr. and Mrs. Madison

VIII Charles Carroll of Carrollton

IX The Nation's Guest, La Fayette

X De Witt Clinton

XI Henry Clay

XII America's Master Painter, Gilbert Stuart

XIII David Porter, United States Navy

XIV Richard Rush

XV Edwin Forrest

XVI Martin Van Buren

XVII Death Mask of James Monroe

Addendum to Chapter VIII LIST OF PLATES

Thomas Jefferson, Profile

John H. I. Browere

John Paulding

Isaac Van Wart

David Williams

Thomas Jefferson

John Adams

John Quincy Adams

Charles Francis Adams

James Madison

"Dolly" Madison

Charles Carroll

Marquis de La Fayette

De Witt Clinton

Henry Clay

Gilbert Stuart

David Porter

Richard Rush

Edwin Forrest

Martin Van Buren

James Monroe's Death Mask