TitleA Young Lad
Artist
Launt Thompson
(American, 1833 - 1894)
Date1861
MediumMarble
DimensionsOverall: 23 × 16 × 9 1/2 in.
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, Gift of Mrs. W. C. Engle, 1905
Object number102-S
Label TextThis portrait bust of an unknown boy, possibly a member of the donor's family, entered the Academy's collection in 1905. It was probably modeled in New York City.Thompson is known to have executed other portraits of children at this time, including a relief of the head of a young girl, called Morning Glory, and "A Child-Portrait Bust", which was shown at the Academy in 1863 (cat. no. 469). In fact, when T. B. Aldrich visited Thompson's Tenth Street studio in 1865, he noted on a shelf "an odd procession of portrait busts, mostly of young folks. . . . seven or eight of them, all facing one way, and looking so lifelike that one cannot help smiling to think how expeditiously they would clamber down from that dusty old shelf if somebody hadn't deprived them of their arms and legs."
[c. 1855]
