Contents

List of Plates

I The Plastic Art

II The Plastic Art in America

III John Henri Isaac Browere

IV The Captors of André

V Discovery of the Life Mask of Jefferson

VI Three Generations of Adamses

VII Mr. and Mrs. Madison

VIII Charles Carroll of Carrollton

IX The Nation’s Guest La Fayette

X De Witt Clinton

XI Henry Clay

XII America’s Master Painter Gilbert Stuart

XIII David Porter United States Navy

XIV Richard Rush

XV Edwin Forrest

XVI Martin Van Buren

XVII Death Mask of James Monroe

Addendum to Chapter VIII

Index