Background
Hartley, Jonathan Scott was born on September 23, 1845 in Albany, New York, United States. Son of Joseph and Margaret (Scott) Hartley.
Hartley, Jonathan Scott was born on September 23, 1845 in Albany, New York, United States. Son of Joseph and Margaret (Scott) Hartley.
He was a pupil of East.D. Palmer, New York, and of the schools of the Royal Academy, London. He later studied for a year in Berlin and for a year in Paris.
Among his other works are the Daguerre Memorial in Washington. Thomas K. Beecher, Elmira, New York, and Alfred the Great, Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State. He sculpted three of the nine busts around the front of the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress in Washington, District of Columbia. His Nathaniel Hawthorne, often mistaken for Mark Twain, has pride of place in the ornate west front gallery of the original Library of Congress building, finished in 1897.
He also sculpted the Washington Irving and the Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The Emerson bust is an exact likeness, as Hartley, and especially his supervisor, Ainsworth Rand Spofford, knew how prominent Emerson"s nose actually was.
In 1881 he became a member of the National Academy of Design.
Married a daughter
