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Pan of Rohalion, by Frederick William MacMonnies

The Cincinnati Art Museum is one of the oldest art museums in the United States. Founded in 1881, it was the first purpose-built art museum west of the Alleghenies. Its collection of over 60,000 works make it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Midwest.

"The Fugitive's Story" (left to right: Fugitive slave, John C. Whittier, Henry Ward Beecher, and William Lloyd Garrison). Sculpture by John Rogers, 1869

John Rogers (1829-1904)was a popular plaster sculptor in the mid-19th century. Rogers is credited with developing a distinctly American style of sculpture because he depicted scenes from everyday life, literature, and the Civil War. Rogers' sculptures appealed to the general public - they were mass produced and sold for under $20 each. It is estimated that he sold 80,000 sculptures between 1863 and 1893.

John Rogers Sculptures

The Cincinnati Art Museum is one of the oldest art museums in the United States. Founded in 1881, it was the first purpose-built art museum west of the Alleghenies. Its collection of over 60,000 works make it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Midwest.

Made by the Mitchell and Rammelsburg firm. ca. 1880

The firm of Mitchell and Rammelsburg was perhaps the best known of the Cincinnati Victorian furniture makers. Robert Mitchell came to Cincinnati in 1829, an Irish immigrant intent on making his mark. After apprenticing himself to established cabinetmakers, he struck out on his own in 1836, eventually forming a partnership that would last until almost the end of the century.

Mitchell's counterpart was Frederick Rammelsburg, one of the thousands of German immigrants who settled in Cincinnati during a great wave of 19th-century settlement.

From their five-story showroom on Columbia Street, Mitchell and Rammelsburg advertised sofas, chairs and cased furniture — sideboards, dressers, desks and elaborate dining and bedroom suites.

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Samuel Percy
(1750-1820)
Samuel Percy was an Irish wax-modeller and sculptor, active in England. He trained at the Dublin Society's Schools and first exhibited at the Society in 1772. In about 1777 he went to London and soon established a thriving practice as a portraitist in wax, modelling in profile until 1790 when he added full-face portraits in high relief.

Samuel Percy, Wax Modeller
A native of Dublin where, as well as in London, he worked as a modeller of likenesses in coloured wax. He received instruction in the Dublin Society's Schools, and he made his first appearance as an exhibitor in 1772, when he sent to the Society of Artists in William Street an "Alto-relievo in wax, Abraham offering Isaac." In the following year he exhibited "Likenesses in wax," and a "Model in clay." Subsequently he went to London and passed the rest of his life there, varied by occasional visits to his native city.

He was in Dublin in 1779, and heralded his arrival by a newspaper announcement: "Likenesses in coloured wax. Mr. Percy intends being in town the 15th of December, for one month only (as his engagement in this country obliges his return). From the very short stay he makes the requests the commands of such of the nobility and gentry as intend employing him may be left at Mr. Moore's, No 1 Capel Street. From his great improvement he flatters himself his pictures are equal to any done in this way. He engages his likenesses to please, the ease of sitting, shortness, cheapness and similitude to the human face give them the preference to any method attempted in the miniature way. He makes these in profiles, whole-lengths, and groups, likewise bracelet size, and repairs such as have met with accidents. N.B.—Mandarine figures repaired; being the only person in these kingdoms who first attempted copying them, and who alone knows their texture."

Samuel Percy
(1750-1820)
Samuel Percy was an Irish wax-modeller and sculptor, active in England. He trained at the Dublin Society's Schools and first exhibited at the Society in 1772. In about 1777 he went to London and soon established a thriving practice as a portraitist in wax, modelling in profile until 1790 when he added full-face portraits in high relief.

Samuel Percy, Wax Modeller
A native of Dublin where, as well as in London, he worked as a modeller of likenesses in coloured wax. He received instruction in the Dublin Society's Schools, and he made his first appearance as an exhibitor in 1772, when he sent to the Society of Artists in William Street an "Alto-relievo in wax, Abraham offering Isaac." In the following year he exhibited "Likenesses in wax," and a "Model in clay." Subsequently he went to London and passed the rest of his life there, varied by occasional visits to his native city.

He was in Dublin in 1779, and heralded his arrival by a newspaper announcement: "Likenesses in coloured wax. Mr. Percy intends being in town the 15th of December, for one month only (as his engagement in this country obliges his return). From the very short stay he makes the requests the commands of such of the nobility and gentry as intend employing him may be left at Mr. Moore's, No 1 Capel Street. From his great improvement he flatters himself his pictures are equal to any done in this way. He engages his likenesses to please, the ease of sitting, shortness, cheapness and similitude to the human face give them the preference to any method attempted in the miniature way. He makes these in profiles, whole-lengths, and groups, likewise bracelet size, and repairs such as have met with accidents. N.B.—Mandarine figures repaired; being the only person in these kingdoms who first attempted copying them, and who alone knows their texture."