John Adams Jackson
John Adams Jackson (November 5, 1825 – August 30, 1879) was an American sculptor noted for his portraits and monuments.
John Adams Jackson
Sculptor John Adams Jackson (1825–1879) · The Reading Girl, by sculptor John Adams Jackson (1825–1879). · Public domain
- Name
- John Adams Jackson
- Born
- 5 November 1825
- Birthplace
- Bath, Maine, US
- Died
- 30 August 1879
- Place of death
- Pracchia, Tuscany
- Occupation
- sculptor
- Known for
- busts, statues
- Nationality
- United States
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
John Adams Jackson (November 5, 1825 – August 30, 1879) was an American sculptor noted for his portraits and monuments.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Note VALÉORINE
John Adams Jackson (1825–1879) was an American sculptor. Born in Bath, the sculptor died in Pracchia. John Adams Jackson worked in Boston, Florence and Italy, among others. Works by the sculptor are held at Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Composed from admitted, traceable facts · 26 September 2026
VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for John Adams Jackson. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q1699096 · wikipedia · John Adams Jackson
In this article
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — John Adams Jackson • Born — 5 November 1825 • Birthplace — Bath, Maine, US • Died — 30 August 1879 • Place of death — Pracchia, Tuscany • Occupation — sculptor • Known for — busts, statues • Notable Works — The Reading Girl
Life
Life
Jackson was born November 5, 1825, in Bath, Maine, and apprenticed to a machinist in Boston, where he gave evidence of talent by modelling a bust of Thomas Buchanan Read. There he studied linear and geometrical drawing and produced crayon portraits. Going abroad in 1853, he visited Florence, where he created several portrait busts in marble, then went to Paris in 1854, where he studied academic life drawing at the Académie Suisse. In 1858 he went to New York City, remaining until 1860, when he moved to Florence, Italy, which was afterward his home. Jackson died in Pracchia in Tuscany on August 30, 1879.
Works
Works
• Illustration — The Reading Girl Jackson's portrait busts include those of Daniel Webster (1851); Adelaide Phillips (1853); Wendell Phillips (1854); "Eve and the Dead Abel" (1862); "Autumn"; "Cupid Stringing his Bow"; "Titania and Nick Bottom"; "The Culprit Fay" (many times repeated); "Dawn" (repeated); "Peace"; "Cupid on a Swan"; "The Morning Glory" (a medallion repeated fourteen times); "Reading Girl" (1869); "Nusidora" (Vienna Exposition, 1873); "Hylas" (1875); and "Il Pastorello," an Abruzzi peasant-boy with his goat. He designed a statue of Dr. Elisha Kane, the arctic explorer, for the Kane monument association (1860); a group intended for the southern gate-house of the former Croton Lower Reservoir in Central Park, New York (1867, not installed); and the Civil War soldiers' monument at Lynn, Massachusetts (1874).
Identity
Identity
John Adams Jackson is recorded as sculptor.
Exhibit in the Portland Museum of Art - Portland, Maine, USA.
Daderot
Exhibit in the Portland Museum of Art - Portland, Maine, USA.
Daderot
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1825
John Adams Jackson born at Bath.
1879
John Adams Jackson died at Pracchia.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Bath.
Birth place
Pracchia.
Death place
Literature
Scholarly footprint
A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.In 1867 Jackson made a visit to New York and presented models for a group and several single figures for the Croton Water Board, intended to be placed on the Reservoir's southern gate house; the design was approved, and engravings of the sculptures were engraved for Croton Water Board bonds, but nothing came of the venture; see Clara Erskine Clement and Laurence Hutton, Artists of the Nineteenth Century and their Works: A handbook vol. II (1889:2, s.v. "Jackson, John Adams")
Bibliography printed in the source article · 1
- Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887–1889
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Wikidata, structured authority record Q1699096: John Adams JacksonWikimedia Foundation
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Sculpture
6,174 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Johannes V. JensenArtist
- Johannes van MildertArtist
- Johannes WiedeweltArtist
- Johannes YkensArtist
- John Adams-ActonArtist
- John AhearnArtist
- John BaconArtist
- John BaselmansArtist
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by John Adams Jackson?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.