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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PepperAnna, post: 4408737, member: 17332&quot;]I came across a few articles recently featuring American cameo carvers. I thought this might be an interesting subject, as often cameo artists are considered to be from Italy, France or another European country.</p><p><br /></p><p>Keeping a running list of American cameo carvers would be helpful in the off-chance someone in the forum happened upon a signed cameo and couldn&#039;t place the artist.</p><p><br /></p><p>To start off, here is a link to an article called &quot;<i>Some American Cameo Portraitists</i> by Gertrude S. Cole from <i>The Magazine Antiques</i>, September 1946, pp. 170-171.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.sites.google.com/site/robertballhughes/Home/sculpture-gallery/cameos" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sites.google.com/site/robertballhughes/Home/sculpture-gallery/cameos" rel="nofollow">https://www.sites.google.com/site/robertballhughes/Home/sculpture-gallery/cameos</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Below is a list American Cameo Artists from the article. Many were also sculptors and painters, using cameo carving as their stepping stone to larger works:</p><p><br /></p><p>John Crookshanks King, Boston, active ~1837-1860</p><p>Peter Stephenson, Boston, active ~1839-1860</p><p>Joseph A. Greenough, Boston, active ~1848-1879</p><p>Margaret Foley, Boston and Rome, active ~mid-1840&#039;s-1877</p><p>Mary Ann Delafield Dubois, New York, born 1813, died 1888</p><p>William Morris Hunt, Boston, active?</p><p>Erastus Dow Palmer, Albany NY, active ~1845-1860s</p><p>Launt Thompson, Albany and New York City, active ~1850s-?</p><p>Robert Ball-Hughes, Boston, active ~1840-1860s</p><p>George O. Annable, Providence, RI active ~1850s</p><p>Augustus St. Gaudens, New York City, Paris, Rome, active ~1861 - late 1800s</p><p>Louis Avet (originally from France), New York City, Cincinnati, and New Orleans, active ~1849-1884</p><p>Jules Le Brethon (originally from France), New&nbsp; York City, active ~1850-1860s?</p><p>Louis St. Gaudens, Rome, active ~1870- 1900?</p><p>Louis Herzog, Rome, active ~1870- 1900?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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