Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
June 8, 1814
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 73
Notes:
An anatomical horse would presumably have revealed the animal's musculature as an aid for artists. The Peale Museum's plaster cast may have resembled the bronze sculpture pictured here, the work of the French animalier sculptor Isidore Jules Bonheur (1827-1901).
George M. Miller (d. 1819) was a stone-cutter, potter, and sculptor. He was a fellow of the Columbian Society of Artists and a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and in 1814 he exhibited "original models" of busts of Charles Willson Peale and others. In that year he also offered to deposit in the the Athenaeum of Philadelphia sculptures of Washington, Franklin, Bishop William White, and Shakespeare / https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.2197.html
