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HENRY CLAY, FROM A HITHERTO UNKNOWN LIFE MASK.
MADE BY J. H. I. BROWERE IN 1825.
First photographed and engraved for McClure's Magazine.
The above was photographed from the copyrighted original in the possession of the artist's descendants. John Henri Isaac Browere was born in New York, November 18, 1792, where he died of cholera September 10, 1834. This artist's name, once famous in this country, is now virtually unknown, but in the next number of McClure's Magazine an article will be published on Browere and his work, with reproductions from the superb and wonderful life casts, the process for taking which Browere perfected toward the close of 1824. Among the first to submit to his process of taking a cast from the living face was Henry Clay, a profile of whose bust is here reproduced for the first time, and it is also believed to be the first publication of any of Browere's work. While it was known that Browere had made a cast of Henry Clay, the whereabouts of the bust from it was unknown until lately discovered by the writer, when the bust was restored to the artist's family. There could scarcely be any truer portraiture than this, wherein we have, down to the minutest detail, the very features of the living man. Such a portrait is of the highest human, as well as historical, interest.
