BUST OF HENRY STANBERRY, JR. BY CHARLES BULLETT (1820-1872)

BUST OF HENRY STANBERRY, JR. BY CHARLES BULLETT (1820-1872)
Marble, signed on the side and dated 1854. 19" high. Henry Stanbery Jr. (1836-1852) was the son of US Attorney General Henry Stanbery Sr. (1803-1881). The elder Henry Stanbery (1803-1881) was born in New York City, but his family moved to Zanesville, Ohio when he was a boy. After graduating from Washington College in Pennsylvania at the age of 16, he returned to Ohio to practice law in Lancaster, being admitted to the bar at 21. In 1846, he was elected as Ohio's first attorney general, and after serving in that position for five years, he then set up practice in Cincinnati, until 1866, when President Andrew Johnson would appoint him to serve as Attorney General of the United States. Stanbery would serve in this capacity for less than two years, much of it spent in asserting Johnson's rights as president to determine the path of Reconstruction, a stance which would lead to Johnson's impeachment in 1868. In March of that year, Stanbery resigned in order to serve as a member of Johnson's counsel during his impeachment. After the trial's conclusion, Johnsons renominated him to the position of Attorney General, but the Senate refused to confirm him. Stanbery returned to Cincinnati, where he was plagued by declining eyesight in the last years of his life. He was seeking treatment in New York when he died at 78. Sculptor Charles Ferreal Auguste Bullett (1820-1872) was born in Besan?on, France. After studying art in France and Italy, he immigrated to the Ohio River Valley by the 1850s, finding work at local marble yards through commissioned pieces. Working in Cincinnati and Louisville, Kentucky, and living in Vevay, Indiana, he won major awards at the Ohio State Fair. During the building of the statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, he was head of the sculptural department, creating busts of Geo. D. Prentice, James S. Lithgow, and Archbishop Martin J. Spalding. By 1860, his arms had suffered major nerve damage from using mallets, and he moved to Carrara, Italy to manage the marble works of Kentucky-based Muldoon, Bullett, and Co.
Condition: Some surface wear and scuffs/scratches.