Men of Progress by Christian Schussele, 1862. The group portrait did not mark an actual occasion, but was designed to honour the achievements of American industry. The artist sketched study portraits of each of his subjects before putting them all into his final, formal composition. William Thomas Green Morton (1819-1868), James Bogardus (1800-1874), Samuel Colt (1814-1862), Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884), Joseph Saxton (1799-1873), Charles Goodyear (1800-1860), Peter Cooper (1791-1883), Jordan Lawrence Mott (1799-1866), Joseph Henry (1797-1878), Eliphalet Nott (1773-1866), John Ericsson (1803-1889), Frederick Ellsworth Sickels (1819-1895), Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), Henry Burden (1791-1871), Richard March Hoe (1815-1884), Erastus Brigham Bigelow (1814-1879), Isaiah Jennings (1792, 1862) Thomas Blanchard (1788-1864), Elias Howe (1819-1867). National Portrait Gallery. |