Horace Mann
Medium
Daguerreotype
Dimensions
21.6 x 16.5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of I. N. Phelps Stokes, Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes, 1937
Accession Number
37.14.25
Tags
About the Artist
Josiah Johnson Hawes|Southworth and Hawes|Albert Sands Southworth
Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808–1901) was born on a farm in East Sudbury, now Wayland, Massachusetts, and began his artistic journey after apprenticing as a carpenter from age seventeen for six years. Self-taught as a painter, he acquired books, colors, and brushes to study independently, mastering miniature portraits on ivory, oil paintings, and landscapes "with no teacher but my books." In 1841, a ch...