• Source: John Frazee

      • John Frazee (July 18, 1790 – February 24, 1852) was an American sculptor and architect. The Smithsonian has a collection of many of his sculptures as well as paintings of Frazee by other artists including Asher B. Durand and Henry Colton Shumway.
      He was born in Rahway, New Jersey, and worked in the Neo-Classic tradition. He is known as being one of the first successful native born American sculptors and "the first American born sculptor to execute a bust in marble". He is best known for his portrait busts, including of John Jay and Marquis De Lafayette. He carved sculptures for the Boston Athenaeum including of Chief Justice John Marshall and Daniel Webster. He also received a commission to design the New York Customs House, later used as Federal Hall National Memorial.
      The sculptor Thomas Crawford began his career as a marble carver in Frazee's studio in New York City.
      In 1826, he helped found the National Academy of Design.


      Selected works


      early 1820s, Elbridge Gerry Monument
      1824, John Wells (1770 – 1823) First sculpture portrait by a native born American sculptor
      1827, Self-portrait sculpture
      1831, John Jay sculpture
      1831, John Henry Hobart (1775 – 1830) plaster sculpture
      1832, Nathaniel Prime bust
      1834, Daniel Webster marble sculpture
      1834, Nathaniel Bowditch (1773 – 1838) marble sculpture
      1834, Cadwallader D. Colden, (1769 – 1834) bas relief on tombstone
      1835, John Lowell sculpture
      1835, Thomas Handasyd Perkins (1764 – 1854) marble sculpture
      1835, John Marshall sculpture
      1836, Joseph Story sculpture
      1836, Judge William Prescott marble sculpture
      1836, William Prescott sculpture
      1839, Monument to Thomas Paine in New Rochelle, New York, (The bronze bust of Paine by sculptor Wilson MacDonald was added in 1899)
      1839, Thomas Paine memorial with bas relief
      1840, William Leggett portrait on tombstone
      1842, George Griswold III (1777 – 1859) bust
      1847, Monument to Charlotte Canda (1828 – 1845)
      ca. 1850, Andrew Jackson sculpture
      Luman Reed sculpture
      William Wetmore Story (1819 – 1895) marble sculpture
      early 1830s, Robert R. Randall attributed to Frazee


      References




      Further reading



      From artisan to artist : John Frazee and the politics of culture in antebellum America by Linda Hyman 1983
      John Frazee, American sculptor by Henry B. Caldwell 115 leaves, 20 leaves of plates : ill 1983, 1951 Call number:N40.1.F845 C14 1983a

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