John Crookshanks King Explained

John Crookshanks King (1806–1882) was a Scotland-born sculptor in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century. He created portraits of John Quincy Adams, Louis Agassiz, Robert Burns, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace Greeley, Walter Scott, Daniel Webster, Samuel B. Woodward and others.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} Around 1852 he kept a studio in Boston's Tremont Temple.^[5]

External links

• WorldCat. King, John Crookshanks 1806-1882
• U.S. House of Representatives. Boggs Room

Notes and References

1. Black. Scotland's mark on America. NY: Scottish Section of "America's Making," 1921
2. Web site: Smithsonian . 2010-09-11.
3. Web site: MFA Boston . 2010-09-11 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100907211944/http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp . 2010-09-07 .
4. Archive of Americana.; American broadsides and ephemera., Series 1
5. Destructive Fire. Boston Daily Atlas; Date: 04-01-1852