藝術家Edward Virginius VALENTINE (1838-1930) 生平簡歷

出生地： Richmond, VA

地址： Richmond, VA, 1868-72

职业： Sculptor, teacher

教育： began modelling portrait busts before he was 20; studied painting under William James Hubard, 1850s; Jouffrey, Couture, Paris, 1859-60; sculpture with Bonanti, Rome, 1861; German sculptor August Kiss, Berlin, 1861-65.

展出： NAD, 1868-72

会员： Richmond AC (founder)

工作： statues, Mem. Chapel, Lexington, VA; Richmond; Fredericksburgh, VA; New Orleans; U.S. Capitol, Wash., DC

评论： While in Berlin he received four photographs of Gen. Robert E. Lee, from which he modeled a statuette which was sold in Liverpool for the benefit of the Southern cause. In 1865 he opened a studio in Richmond, where he made busts and statues of Confederate heroes. His most famous work is the recumbent statue of General Lee in the Lee Mem. Chapel at Lexington, VA, although some critics have pronounced his Andromache and Astyanax" in the Valentine Mus., at Richmond, his masterpiece. Also characteristic of his work were his depictions of the lives of Blacks, made just after the Civil War and sold in Northern cities. Valentine was prominent in the Richmond art community, he was a teacher at the Richmond Art Club and was president of the Valentine Museum in Richmond.

来源： G&W; Richmond Portraits, 234-35; Fairman, Art and Artists of the Capitol; DAB; CAB; WW29; Gerdts, Art Across America, vol. 2: 21, 23."