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Artist
Martin Milmore, 14 Sep 1844 - 21 Jul 1883
Foundry
Henry Bonnard Bronze Co.
Sitter
Wendell Phillips, 29 Nov 1811 - 2 Feb 1884
Date
1869
Type
Sculpture
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
With Socle: 72.4 x 38.1 x 26.7cm (28 1/2 x 15 x 10 1/2")
Topic
Wendell Phillips: Male
Wendell Phillips: Law and Crime\Lawyer
Wendell Phillips: Literature\Writer
Wendell Phillips: Education and Scholarship\Educator\Lecturer
Wendell Phillips: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Abolitionist
Wendell Phillips: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Temperance
Portrait
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Object number
NPG.68.27
Exhibition Label
Born Boston, Massachusetts
Wendell Phillips’s fiery speeches galvanized the faithful and converted the undecided to the abolitionist cause. A Boston lawyer, Phillips garnered fame as an orator with his fervent 1837 attack on the Southern “slaveocracy,” after a proslavery mob murdered crusading newspaperman Elijah Lovejoy. Phillips was a disciple of William Lloyd Garrison, and, like his mentor, he believed that slavery had so infected the country that the Constitution itself was tainted. After the Civil War, Phillips became one of the first leaders of the U.S. labor movement.
Nacido en Boston, Massachusetts
Los apasionados discursos de Wendell Phillips avivaban a los fieles y persuadían a los indecisos de unirse a la causa abolicionista. Este abogado de Boston adquirió fama de orador con su ataque de 1837 a la “esclavocracia” sureña, después de que una turba esclavista asesinara al periodista Elijah Lovejoy, defensor de la abolición. Phillips fue discípulo de William Lloyd Garrison y, al igual que su mentor, creía que el esclavismo había infectado al país hasta el punto de contaminar incluso la Constitución. Después de la Guerra Civil, fue uno de los primeros líderes del movimiento obrero estadounidense
Provenance
(Victor D. Spark) [1898-1991], New York; purchased NPG 1968
