John Crookshanks King

American artist
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Quick Facts

IntroAmerican artist
A.K.A.John C. King John King
A.K.A.John C. King John King
PlacesUnited States of America
wasArtist Sculptor
Work fieldArts
Gender
Male
Birth1806
Death1882 (aged 76 years)
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Biography

Portrait of J.Q. Adams by J.C. King, 1861; located in Faneuil Hall, Boston

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. Around 1852 he kept a studio in Boston's Tremont Temple.

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