Clark Mills
Clark Mills
1810 - 1883
Born 1 December 1810 or or, in Onondaga (New York); died 12 January 1883, in Washington DC.
Sculptor. Busts, statues, equestrian statues.
Clark Mills was the father of Theodore Augustus Mills, and worked in Charleston. He is famous for his equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson in Washington, of 1853. This was the first equestrian statue produced in America and Mills, with little experience at that time, worked on it for five years. The statue is endowed with a dynamism lacking in his first busts. His statue of Washington, commissioned by Congress and erected in 1860 in the capital, is less successful. ["MILLS, Clark." Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, accessed September 9, 2014, http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/benezit/B00123101.]
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