Biografie von Chauncey Bradley IVES (1810-1894)
Birth place: Hamden, CT
Death place: Rome, Italy
Addresses: NYC c.1840-44; Florence, 1844-51; Rome, 1851-94
Profession: Sculptor
Studied: apprenticed to wood-carver R.F. Northrop in New Haven, CT, and possibly also learned from Hezekiah Augur; later went to Boston where he began carving in marble
Exhibited: NAD, 1879; PAFA, 1840-48, 1860; Brooklyn AA, 1872; AIC, 1888; Boston Athenaeum
Work: Yale Univ. Art Gallery (Undine Receiving Her Soul" and "Noah Webster"); Buffalo and Erie County Hist. Soc.; Corcoran Gal.; Newark Mus.; Md. Hist. Soc.; NYHS; Virginia Mus. Commissions: full-length portraits of Roger Sherman and Johnathan Trumbull, made for the state of Conn. in 1872, for placement in statuary hall, U.S. Capitol, Wash., DC (a replica of the Trumbull is at Conn. State Capitol, Hartford)."
Comments: An important expatriate neoclassical sculptor, he produced numerous idealized busts and figures, although his early portrait busts were rendered in a naturalistic style. After seven years in Florence, he settled in Rome where he remained, except for numerous brief visits to the United States, until his death.
Sources: G&W; DAB; NYBD 1841; French, Art and Artists in Connecticut, 82-83; Cowdrey, NAD; Cowdrey, AA & AAU; Swan, BA; Rutledge, PA. More recently, see Craven, Sculpture in America, 284-88;Baigell, Dictionary