BROWN, HENRY KIRKE

BROWN, HENRY KIRKE, sculptor, born at Leyden, Massachusetts, in 1814. He studied for some years in Italy, and returning in 1846, settled at Brooklyn, where he executed the first bronze statue ever cast in America. Besides several subjects in marble, his notable works include statues of Lincoln in Brooklyn and New York, an equestrian statue of General Scott in Washington, and a colossal equestrian statue of General Washington in Union Square, New York. He died July 10, 1886.