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Junius Brutus Stearns
Junius Brutus Stearns (born Lucius Sawyer Stearns, June 2, 1810 – September 17, 1885) was an American painter best known for his five-part Washington Series (1847–1856).[1]
He was a member of the National Academy of Design for several decades and a member of its council.
He was born Lucius Sawyer Stearns[1] in Arlington, Vermont. He named two sons after him, one Lucius Stearns, and the other Junius Brutus Stearns, Jr. Stearns, Jr., served in the Civil War in the 44th Regiment.[2] JB Stearns served in the Civil War as well, in New York's 12th Regiment.[3][4] He also had two other sons, Raphael and Michaelangelo, and a daughter, Edith Sylvia.[5]
His painting The Millennium was submitted as credentials for his admission as a member of the National Academy of Design.[6]
- ^ a b "Washington as Statesman at the Constitutional Convention by Junius Brutus Stearns - Teaching American History". teachingamericanhistory.org. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
- ^ The Battles Before Richmond - Lists of Wounded in the Different Encounters. Names of the Prisoners in Richmond. Second Maine Regiment. Twenty-Second Massachusetts Regiment. TW...
- ^ Wagenen, Avis Stearns Van (1901). "Stearns Genealogy and Memoirs". google.com. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
- ^ History and honorary roll of the Twelfth Regiment, Infantry, N.G.S.N.Y. Gale Cengage Learning. ISBN 9781432808761. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
- ^ "RootsWeb: PETIT-L Edith (Stearns) Foy-Pettit and stepson Wade C. Pettit". rootsweb.com. Retrieved 26 April 2015.; "Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition of Historical Portraits and Relics ..." google.com. 1889. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
- ^ Gail E. Husch (2000). Something Coming: Apocalyptic Expectation and Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Painting.
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