Charles Calverley (1833-1914)
Bust of Young Girl
Marble, 1877
AIHA Collection

Born and raised in Albany, Charles Calverley worked as an assistant to Albany's noted neoclassical sculptor, Erastus Dow Palmer for 15 years, preparing and cutting marble. During this time, he produced many portrait medallions of members of his family and friends. Calverley opened a studio in New York in 1868 where he advertised himself as a "Portrait sculptor of busts and medallions." In 1875 he was elected as a full member of the National Academy of Design. During his lifetime he completed over 250 busts, medallions, tablets and two statues.

Ariaantie Coeymans Verplanck

by Nehemia Partridge

A Sculptor's Studio

by Tompkins H. Matteson

The Fondey Family

by Ezra Ames

Still Life: Fruit in a Classical Setting

by John Vanderlyn, Jr.

The Fist

by Alice Morgan Wright

Margin of Silence

by Kay Sage

Thoroughbreds

by Walter L. Greene

Bust of Young Girl

by Charles Calverley

Library at Arbor Hill (Olcott Interior)

by Walter Launt Palmer

Emma Turner Banks

by Charles Loring Elliot