Charles Loring Elliott

Charles Calverley

1867; carved 1868 · Marble · The American Wing

Elliott (1812 – 1868) enjoyed a prolific career, completing over seven hundred portraits. He worked first as an itinerant artist traveling throughout New York State and after 1840 settled in New York City. He and Calverley probably met through the sculptor Erastus Dow Palmer when Calverley was an assistant in Palmer’s Albany studio. This low-relief marble, executed in the year of Elliott’s death, depicts him in profile with unkempt locks and beard. Calverley presented the sculpture in its original ebonized shadow box to the Museum in 1894.

Artist

Charles Calverley

Date

1867; carved 1868

Medium

Marble

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Gift of the sculptor through F. Byrne Ivy, 1904