Lot 10: w - JAMES HENRY HASELTINE AMERICAN, 1833-1907

AMERICA HONOURING HER FALLEN BRAVE

measurements note
75cm., 29½in.

signed and dated: J. HENRY. HASELTINE. F. / ROME. 1865 and inscribed on the socle AMERICA HONORING HER FALLEN BRAVE.

white marble

PROVENANCE

Private collection, Florida; Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York; Private collection, United Kingdom

NOTE

James Henry Haseltine came from a large, artistic Philadelphia family; the sculptor Herbert Haseltine was his nephew. He spent time in Paris before arriving in Rome in 1857 in the tradition of other American Neo-classicists such as Hiram Powers. On the outbreak of the Civil War he returned to Philadelphia and enlisted. Haseltine became a member of the Union League of Philadelphia, founded in 1862, and it was his fellow League members who gave him the commission of a monument to soldiers and sailors lost in the war. He completed the monument back in his Roman studio in 1867. The 72 inch figure of America Honoring her Fallen Brave now stands in the Union League of Philidelphia Club. The present marble is a reduction in bust form, a small-scale statuette of the model was also produced, testifying to the model's popularity.

RELATED LITERATURE
Opitz, p.174: American Sculpture 1850-1950 (2003) pp.12-13