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Hiram Powers

Charles Francis Fuller, English, born England 1830-died Florence, Italy 1875

This head of Hiram Powers is a cast of the portrait bust that Charles Fuller made of his teacher and friend. Fuller exhibited the terra-cotta bust from which this cast was made at the Royal Academy in 1873, the year of Powers’s death.

Date

modeled ca. 1870

Type

Sculpture

Medium

plaster

Department

SAAM

Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Object number

saam_1968.155.114

Credit

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase in memory of Ralph Cross Johnson