Henry Kirke Brown

Henry Kirke Brown (February 24, 1814 in Leyden, Massachusetts – July 10, 1886 in Newburgh, New York) was an American sculptor.

[4] He produced the small, bronze statuette The Choosing of the Arrow for distribution by the American Art Union, in 1849.

[6] Among his other works are: statue of Abraham Lincoln (Union Square, New York City); Nathanael Greene, George Clinton, Philip Kearny, and Richard Stockton (all in the National Statuary Hall, United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.); De Witt Clinton (illustration, below) and The Angel of the Resurrection, both in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York; and an Aboriginal Hunter.

[2] The New York Times remarked that the DeWitt Clinton was the first American full-length sculpture cast in a single piece, when it was exhibited temporarily in City Hall Park in 1855.

[citation needed] His nephew and adopted son, Henry Kirke Bush-Brown, was also a sculptor and pupil of Brown's.

L to R.: Henry Kirke Brown, Henry Peters Gray and Asher Brown Durand , 1850