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Henry Jackson Ellicott (June 22 or 23, 1847 in Annapolis, Maryland – February 11, 1901 in Washington, D.C.) was an American sculptor and architectural sculptor, best known for his work on American Civil War monuments. ==Biography== The son of James P. Ellicott and Fannie Adelaide Ince, he attended Rock Hill College School in Ellicott City, Maryland, and Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C. He studied at Georgetown Medical College, and may have served in the Civil War.〔(An 1896 New York Times article ) implies that the 16-year-old Ellicott was present at the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg.〕 At age 19, he completed a larger-than-life plaster statue of ''Abraham Lincoln'' – likely an entry in the Lincoln Monument Association's competition for a marble statue – that was exhibited for two years in the United States Capitol rotunda. The competition was won by sculptor Lot Flannery, whose statue is at District of Columbia City Hall. The fate of Ellicott's Lincoln statue is unknown.〔Louis A. Warren, "The Curious Story of Ellicott's ''Lincoln''," ''Lincoln Herald'', vol. 48-49, 1946.〕 He studied at the National Academy of Design, 1867–70, under William Henry Powell and Emanuel Leutze; and later studied under Constantino Brumidi.〔Charles Edwin Fairman, ''Works of Art in the United States Capitol Building: Including Biographies of the Artists'' (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1913), p. 22.〕 His first two commissions were for monuments at Mount Calvary Cemetery in Lothian, Maryland (1870) and Greenwood Cemetery in Laurel, Maryland. He was the likely modeler of an ''Infantryman'' statue for J. W. Fiske Architectural Metals, Inc. of New York City, that was mass-produced and used in numerous municipal Civil War monuments. Company records list the sculptor's name as "Allicot."〔(Fiske Infantryman ) from JAIC online.〕 He moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and modeled architectural sculpture on buildings for the 1876 Centennial Exposition.〔"Henry Jackson Ellicott," ''Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans'', Rossiter Johnson, ed. (1904).〕 He remained in Philadelphia, and exhibited occasionally at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts between 1878 and 1891.〔Susan James-Gadzinski and Mary Mullen-Cunningham, "Henry J. Ellicott," ''American Sculpture in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts'' (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997), pp. 106-07.〕 Ellicott was appointed Superintendent and Chief Modeler for the U.S. Treasury Department in 1889, responsible for all federal monuments. He moved to Washington, D.C., where he lived until his death. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Jackson Ellicott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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