"A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth." -- John Singer Sargent

Sunday, August 16, 2020

John Marshall


This 1850 bust of Justice John Marshall by John Frazee stands in the Virginia State Capitol Building in Richmond Virginia.
John Marshall
1755-1835
Chief Justice of the
United States
1801-1835
John Frazee, Sculptor
1850



The U.S. Senate owns a similarly toga-ed but less revealing bust of  Marshall by Hiram Powers, sculpted in 1839 for the Supreme Court Chamber.

John Marshall
Fourth
Chief - Justice
Sup Court
01 Jan 1801

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