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William Tilden Blodgett

1865
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 762
William Tilden Blodgett (1823–1875), a prominent Manhattan entrepreneur and philanthropist, sat for his portrait bust in the spring of 1865, shortly after the close of the Civil War. Blodgett appears with fashionable muttonchop sideburns and wavy hair, yet Ward coupled this realistic treatment with a classicizing bare-chested termination on a round socle. Both Ward and Blodgett were founding trustees of The Met and worked together to acquire the European and American paintings and sculptures that formed the nucleus of the Museum’s collection.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: William Tilden Blodgett
  • Artist: John Quincy Adams Ward (American, Urbana, Ohio 1830–1910 New York)
  • Date: 1865
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Marble
  • Dimensions: 26 x 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (66 x 39.4 x 26.7 cm)
  • Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. John Quincy Adams Ward, 1910
  • Object Number: 10.200
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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