Ferdinand Pettrich

Friedrich August Ferdinand Pettrich
Portrait of Pettrich by Herman Wilhelm Bissen
Born1798 (1798)
Dresden, Electorate of Saxony
DiedFebruary 14, 1872(1872-02-14) (aged 73–74)
Rome, Kingdom of Italy
NationalityGerman
Known forSculpture
Washington Resigning His Commission, ca. 1841, now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Friedrich August Ferdinand Pettrich (1798 – 14 February 1872) was a German sculptor active in Germany, Brazil, the United States, and Italy. He was an internationally famous portrait sculptor who created busts of political figures in Washington D.C. as well as Native Americans such as Tecumseh. In the early 1840s he moved to Brazil to become the Court Sculptor to Emperor Dom Pedro II.[1]

  1. ^ Chamberlain,Georgia Stamm. Studies on American Painters and Sculptors of the Nineteenth Century. Robert Chamberlain/ Turnpike Press; 1st Edition, 1965. Hardcover.