Hart, Joel

T., sculptor, born in Clark co., Kentucky, in 1810; pa ed his early life at farming, stonecutting, .; modelled his first bust in Cincinnati, in 1837. President Jackson, Ca ius M. Clay, Horace Greeley, John J. Crittenden, and others sat for him. In 1847 he modelled a statue at Ashland of Henry Clay, for the State of Virginia, executed in Italy in 1858; produced a bronze colo al statue of Clay for New Orleans in 1859, and a life-sized marble statue for Louisville, in 1865. Among his various ideal works may be named The Triumph of Chastity. He also invented an instrument for taking the exact forms from life, and by which other works in sculpture can be copied with great perfection. H. was entirely self-educated. He produced several collections of verse, fables and maxims, some of which were published. Died in 1877. Hart, SOLOMON ALEXANDER, painter, born at Plymouth, England, in 1806; became, in 1857, profe or of painting in the Royal Academy, London. Among his best compositions are: Isaac of York in the Donjon of Front de Boeuf (1830); Cœur de Lion and the Sultan Salad in (1835); Queen Eleanor Sucking the Poison from the Arm of Edward I. (1838); Dinner -time in the Refectory of the Convent of the Ogne anti, Florence, Milton Visiting Gali leo in Prison; The Three Inventors of Printing; and The Introduction of Raphael to Pope Julius II. H. became Royal Academician in 1840. Died in 1881. Hart, in Michigan , a post-village, cap. of Oceana co., 34 m. N. of Muskeg on, on C. & W. M. R. R. Has saw mills, sash factory and broom-handle works. Pop . (1894) 992.