POWERS, Hiram
(b. 1805, Woodstock, Vermont, d. 1873, Firenze)

Bust of General Andrew Jackson

c. 1835
Marble
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Hiram Powers was the first American sculptor to achieve international fame.

Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829-1837). He was military governor of Florida (1821), commander of the American forces at the Battle of New Orleans (1815), and eponym of the era of Jacksonian democracy.