Career
He was an internationally famous portrait sculptor who created busts of political figures in Washington District of Columbia as well as Native Americans. In the early 1840s he moved to Brazil to become the Court Sculptor to Emperor Dom Pedro World War II Born in Dresden to sculptor Franz Pettrich, court sculptor to Elector Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, Pettrich studied in Rome under Bertel Thorvaldsen. Pettrich died in Rome in 1872.
The Dying Tecumseh
Martin Van Buren
John Vaughan (wine merchant)
Washington Resigning His Commission
Mistress
Frederich Augustus Ferdinand Pettrich
Self-Portrait
William Norris
Our Lady of the Confederacy in the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist (Charleston).