BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886), American sculp tor, was born in Leyden (Mass.) on Feb. 24, 1814. He began to paint portraits while a boy, studied painting in Boston under Ches ter Harding, learned a little about modelling, and in spent his summers working as a railroad engineer to earn enough to study further. He spent four years (1842-46) in Italy; but returning to New York he remained distinctively American, and was never dominated, as were so many of the early American sculptors, by Italian influence. He died on July I o, 1886, at New burgh (N.Y.). His equestrian statues are excellent, notably that of Gen. Winfield Scott (1874) in Washington, D.C., and one of George Washington (1856) in Union square, New York city, which was the second equestrian statue made in the United States. Brown was one of the first in America to cast his own bronzes. Among his other works are : Abraham Lincoln (Union square, New York city) ; Nathanael Greene, George Clinton, Philip Kearny and Richard Stockton (all in the National Statuary hall of the Capitol, Washington, D.C.) ; De Witt Clinton and "The Angel of the Resurrection," both in Greenwood cemetery, New York city; and an "Aboriginal Hunter." His nephew and pupil, HENRY KIRKE BUSH-BROWN (1857 also became prominent among American sculptors, his "Buffalo Hunt," equestrian statues of Generals Meade and Reyn olds at Gettysburg, and "Justinian" in the New York appellate courthouse, being his chief works. He completed also a portrait bust of Henry Kirke Brown for the Hall of Fame of New York university.