• Benjamin Harrison
    Charles Henry Niehaus
    portrait
    bust
    This bronze plaster bust of President Benjamin Harrison was crafted by Charles Henry Niehaus in the late 19th century. Niehaus also crafted a statue of Harrison that stands at the Indiana World War Memorial Plaza.
  • Abraham Lincoln
    Charles Henry Niehaus
    portrait
    sculpture
    This bronze bust of President Abraham Lincoln was made by American sculptor Charles Henry Niehaus in the late 19th century. Niehaus was an eminent sculptor known for his representations of politicians including, among others, William McKinley, James Garfield, and Henry Clay. Several of his statues reside in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol and his bust of President Benjamin Harrison is also a part of the White House Collection.
  • George Washington
    Gyula Julius Bezeredi
    statue
    This bronzed plaster statuette of President George Washington was created by Gyula Julius Bezeredi in 1923, and manufactured by Antal Mengsik. Bezeredi was a well-known Hungarian sculptor, who is best known for the larger version of this statuette that resides in a park in Budapest. This statuette, along with a statuette of Hungarian freedom fighter and revolutionary Lajos Kossuth (sometimes referred to as Louis), were presented to the White House in 1923 as a gift of Americans of Hungarian Origin. Washington served as the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution. He served as president from April 30, 1789 until March 4, 1797.
  • Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert de Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
    Unknown
    sculpture
    busts
    likeness
    American Revolution
    This plaster bust by an unknown artist is of the Marquis de Lafayette around 1930. A French aristocrat, Lafayette is renowned for his allegiance with the United States during the American Revolutionary War and his friendships with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton, among others. Lafayette's 1824-1825 visits to the White House and to Washington, D.C. were among the highlights of his triumphal tour of the United States, as people honored the last surviving French general of the Revolutionary War and one of the last remaining living links to the Revolutionary Era.
  • Neighboring Pews
    John Rogers
    sculpture
    This sculpture by American artist John Rogers shows a group of people at church. A young woman is leafing through a book looking for a page, with her male neighbor leaning forward from the pew behind to point to the correct one. An elderly woman, seated beside the girl, is looking up with a rather unpleasant expression at the helpful man, while a small boy lounges in the front pew, with a stolen top hat and gloves in his possession. The sculpture is finely detailed, down to the cushions on the seats and the ruffles and trims on the women's clothing. Rogers was famous for sculpting extremely popular and relatively affordable statuettes out of plaster depicting average life which he mass produced and sold, gaining himself a national reputation and widespread popularity in the second half of the 19th century.
  • Close Up of Neighboring Pews
    John Rogers
    sculpture
    This close-up image is of a portion of a sculpture by John Rogers showing a group of people at church. The image provides a closer view of the unhappy expression on the older woman's face in the statue.