William Maxwell Evarts
Augustus Saint-Gaudens American
Early in his career, Saint-Gaudens secured commissions for portrait busts of male sitters, which he executed in a hybrid real-ideal style that was popular at the time. This likeness of the prominent attorney William Maxwell Evarts (1818–1901), displayed at the Centennial Exhibition, is a naturalistic bust terminating in a classicizing undraped chest. When Evarts first met Saint-Gaudens in Rome, he was based in Geneva, Switzerland, as the United States’s counsel at the Alabama Claims tribunal, which had been convened to review sanctions against the British for aiding the Confederate cause during the Civil War.
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