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Jackson was born on November 5, 1825, in Bath, Maine. His parents were Thomas Jackson and Susan (Smith) Hale Jackson, daughter of Ebenezer and Susan Smith of Woolwich, Maine.
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John Adams Jackson
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In youth Jackson was a pupil of D. C. Johnston, of Boston; later, having become expert in linear and geometrical drawing, he turned to crayon drawing, in which field he made creditable portraits; and in Paris he studied anatomy and drew from life under Charles Suisse, a portrait painter.
Career
In 1851, the year before Daniel Webster's death, Jackson modeled a bust of that statesman, not from life, but from information and portraits furnished by the Webster family. In 1853, he was in Florence, Italy, where he made portrait busts of Miss Adelaide Phillips, and of Thomas Buchanan Read, the poet afterward famous for his "Sheridan's Ride. " Both of these works by Jackson were shown in the United States, the Union League Club of Philadelphia buying the "Read. " In 1854, he was again in Paris, where he made a bust of John Young Mason, the United States minister to France. His fame in portraiture was established; it is said that his sitters numbered a hundred. In 1858, Jackson set up a studio in New York City, where he produced both portraits and ideal figures until in 1860, fortified by a commission from the Kane Monument Association (New York City) to make a post-mortem statue of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, the explorer, he returned to Florence, which was thenceforth his home. Both in England and in Italy, the sculptor's marble group of "Eve and the Dead Abel" (1867), a composition of the familiar "Pietâ" type, met high praise from the critics; its anatomy was favorably analyzed in a surgeon's essay. Among numerous ideal themes were "Autumn, " "Cupid Stringing his Bow, " "Cupid on a Swan, " "Titania and Nick Bottom, " "The Culprit Fay, " "Peace, " and "Dawn. " A medallion called "Morning Glory" was fourteen times reproduced in marble. Jackson visited New York in 1867, and designed for the Croton Water Board a group for the southern gatehouse of the reservoir in Central Park. In 1869, his figure of a "Reading Girl" was the subject of a laudatory article in the Berlin Zeitung. His "Musidora, " shown at the Vienna Exposition of 1873, won plaudits from the press both of Vienna and Boston. In 1874, a Soldiers' Monument from his hand was erected in Lynn, Massachusetts, the city being symbolized by a bronze female figure, flanked by bronze statues of "War" and "Justice, " supported on a large granite pedestal. With "Hylas" (1875) and "Il Pastorello, " he returned to ideal themes. Jackson died on August 30, 1879, in Pracchia, Italy.
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The History of American Sculpture (Classic Reprint)
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- Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works. A Handbook Containing two Thousand and Fifty Biographical Sketches
- Book of the Artists: American Artist Life, Comprising Biographical and Critical Sketches of American Artist: Preceded by an Historical Account of the ... Progress of Art in America (Classic Reprint)
- Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York: For the Years 1844-5 (Classic Reprint)
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