I-?- O j&i109raphy - Jackson, Andrew - TbrfrBif s / - ....•-.'-•- ,:. ..,,.' - - 1? -••...-. Carolina to which place he encan Revolution, the grated with his parents at the age Carolina State Commission of Two Valuable Gifts Made To of three. Butty, who studied at Forestry and the Lancaster Coun home and abroad, preferred life ty Historical Commission are co in America. He is rated as one of operating in this celebration of the best of early American paint the 192 anniversary of Jackson©s ers. Among his better known birth, 1767, in Lancaster county. Jackson State Park works is the coronation portrait (Sources used included the fol in Andrew of Queen Victoria *hich was lowing material: photostat copies, palmed for the Saint George©s property of Lancaster County His 09 By VIOLA C. FLOYD Society of Philadelphia. Among torical Commission, made from proposed to produce in ft* finish - other portraits of hU are the pages 90-91. January issue, 1854. Two new items have been added to the growing collec ed work. When he had soaipleted Lafayette which hangs in Inde Graham©s Magazine, Volume rt tion in the Andrew Jackson Historical Park Museum of the clay model the committee, pendence Hall and the Thomas XLIV, number 1 on file Caro- One, a miniature bronze statue, is a replica through permission of Congress. Jefferson in the United State* liniana library, University of 8. Lancaster County. placed at his disposal a bronze Military Academy, West Point, C., Columbia. S. C.; The (Char of the original clay model of the famous Jackson equestrian cannon that Jackson had captur -O New York. His works are to be leston) Courier, May 8, 1850; C statue. It was presented to the state park officials by Dr. and ed in the War of 1812. found In all the larger museum*. Scribner©s Dictionary of American o Mrs. David©E, Finlay of Washington. Beady to cast the bronze Mills In the spring of 1845 Sully jjicgiaphy: "Artists in the Lite of learned the heartbreaking news painted this Jackson portrait Charleston" by Anna Wells Rut- Dr. Flnley, a native of York, next took up marblefif cubing. A that no round a ry In America was from a study he had made In 1824 ledge published by American Phil was former director of the Na bust of Calhoun cut from Carolina equipped to undertake such a It may have been commissioned osophical Society, 1949; Guide tional Gallery of Art. The second marble so pleased the city of- j task. Undaunted he built his own by Admiral Lee whose wife was Book Louisiana State Museum; gift is an oil portrait, a copy f ficials of Charleston that he pre-j foundry, using methods of con the daughter of Francis Preston Who©s Who in America). Thomas Sully©s painting of An sented it to them and they award- ! struction that had never been Blair former member of Jackson©s drew Jackson made in 1845 from ed him a gold medal. The "Cal- tried before. He then had to "Kitchen Cabinet." In 1837 Presi For pictures, see a sitting taken in 1824. The copy noun" bust is now in the Cor-{ train his own workmen. Through dent Jackson had presented the other side of board! was painted by C. G. Strapko an coran Art Gallery, according to -© heat and cold he had to do much study to Blair as he was prepar artist now located in Washington. i©s Dictionary of American r of the actual work himself. By ing to take hi* departure from The portrait is being given tn Biography which also says he October, 1852, after four years of the White House. The study now memory of the late Dr. William sold the bust to the city. hard labor, he had completed the belongs to Mrs. Breckinbridge Harrilsor, Sapp by relatives in casting of all the bronze parts for Long of Laurel, Maryland. Mrs. the name of the Sapp family. Friends began to urge Mills to his creation. It took him three Long is a descendant of Blair The minature statue is one of go abroad for study. He moved to; months to put the pieces together through another daughter. The several that were made of bronze Columbia S. C. to work there., and to set it up on the $5.000 Lee portrait of 1845 became a part from the original small clay William C. Preston gave him an marble base the government pro of the Mellon collection in 1943 model for the ©questnan sta Me expense paid trip to Washington. vided. The completed "Jackson" and In the National Gallery of of Jacks on which was unveiled in On his way he stopped in Rich was dedicated in Washington in Art is now designated as Sully Lafayette Square in Washington mond, Va. wbere he saw Houdon©s January, 1853 on the thirty-eighth portrait, number 587. in 1853. A duplicat. was dedicated statue of "Washington" it was anniversary of Jackson©s victory Dr. William HarrUon Sapp, In in New Orleans in 1856 and a the first statue Mills had ever at New Orleans. whose memory the portrait oopy third made from the same mold seen. Mills had promised to make the Is being presented to the Jackjon in Nashville in 1880. Ail three of Inventive though he was. Mills Historical Park museum, was born these one-third larger than life- was astounded w1 en approached statue for $12,000. It cost him in the northeastern section of size statues were cast from bronze with the request from the com $19,000 not counting the marble Lancaster county, South Carolina cannon that General Jackson mittee ".hat he make a bronze base the government furnished. on March 20, 1866. He was the captured from th; British in the statue of Andrew Jackson. At To express its approval Congress son of Randall H. and Emily War of 1812. first he refused. Then the thrill voted to give him an additional Plyler Sapp. A number of other ing idea of a statue of the General $20,000. Tbe city of New Orleans Sapp who The mi nature replica being ordered a replica which was dedi descendants of Randal] presented to the South Carolina mounted on a spirited horse took migrated to Lancaster county in possession of the artist. He con cated in 1856. The New Orleans Jackson Historical Park in Lan statue stands an -a foundation, I860 have also become civic and caster county, according to Dr sented to do the work despite the political leaders In county and fact he had never seen an eques according to New Orleans records, Finley. was probably the property whose cornerstone Jackson him state affairs. Dr. Sapp married of the late W. W. Corcoran. great trian statue. Eventually he cast, Clara Rhett Plyler who passed under trying circumstances, one self laid In 183B when he took grandfather of Mrs. Pi nicy. part in the twenty-fifth celebra away several years before her hus of the most perfectly balanced band who died May 23, 1946. They The difficulties and handicaps on horse that tion of his vlcUfry there. Th* under which Clark Mills labored statues of a man were survived by six son* and two had been produced in the world third statue made from the re daughters. : In producing the marvelously bal to that time. The pitching horse maining bronze was sold by Mill* anced statue of Jackson on a So William Harrison Sapp attend and its rider are so skilfully to the Tennessee Historical ed Wofford Pitting School at rearing horse of lifelike bearing wrought that the center of grav ciety. It was unveiled on the capt- in May, Spartanburg and South Carolina are such that would stop the ity passing from the man through tol grounds at Nashville Medical School, Charleston. He average person. the horse to Its hind feet holds 2880. practiced medicine In his native Clark Mills (not to be confused the statue erect with no artificial Mills fame was assured. Con county and in the lower part of with Robert Mills, the architect) prop. Such a thing was unheard gress awarded him a fifty thou Onion county, North Carolina fw was born In New York state in of, even In Europe, it that day. sand dollar contract for an his home was near the state line, 1810. *">rphaned at flv<; he lived Mills submitted the small clay equestrian statue of Washington. He was a man of wide business in the home of an uncle until be model to the committee which In 1860 he was commtsiioned to Interests and Urge land holdings | was thirteen at which time he approved it and gave him a com cast In bronze Crawford©s colossal in both Lancaster and Union i left because of real or fancied mission for the statue in bronze "Liberty" for the Capitol dome. counties. He had such a pleasant i mistreatment. Travelln^. from to be one-third larger than life- The "Washington" was dedicated and cheerful disposition that bis , place to place, with little formal size proportions. The committee In 1860 but critics say It Is not patients often asserte that his education he worked as a farm promised to furnish the bronze the equal of the "Jackson," his very presence made them feel bet hand, a millwright apprentice, a Mills contracted to make the masterpiece. ter. canal worker, a cabinet-maker, a statue for $12,000. The oil portrait of Jackson be The statue and the portrait are. cement worker and a plasterer The next task was L make the ing presented to the park museum both valuable additions to the He spent one year in New Orleans large plaster model necessary for by descendants of the late Dr par* museum.