Large Albumen of Confederate General JEB Stuart by Edward Valentine 1866

  

Large Albumen 9 by 11 inch's of the famous Memorial Bust of JEB Stuart created by noted Richmond Sculpture Edward Valentine and published in 1866. Edward Virginius Valentine was a sculptor known for his monuments to Confederate military and political leaders who became heroes of the Lost Cause.

Born in Richmond on November 12, 1838, Valentine attended Richmond Academy before traveling to Europe in 1859 to study art. From an early age, Valentine displayed racist ideas typical of many white Southerners.

In 1875, Valentine completed one of his most famous works, Recumbent Lee, for the chapel at Washington and Lee University. He also created the sculpture of Robert E.

Lee for Statuary Hall in the U. Capitol (removed in 2020); the Jefferson Davis monument erected in 1907 as the third of the Confederate memorials on Monument Avenue in Richmond (toppled by protesters in June 2020); the James Audubon statue in New Orleans; and the Stonewall Jackson statue in Oak Grove Cemetery in Lexington, Virginia. Called in his time "one of the foremost of American sculptors" and "the first of Southern sculptors, " he is controversial today for his embrace of the Lost Cause and racism. Several of his statues have been removed from public display, and his impact on the Lost Cause and Civil War memory has been reinterpreted at the Richmond museum that bears his family's name, The Valentine.

Valentine died on October 19, 1930, and is buried in Hollywood Cemetery in his hometown.