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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PepperAnna, post: 3269924, member: 17332&quot;]As promised, here is one of the anonymous gentlemen cameos. It is carved by Peter Stephenson in 1848.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]298103[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]298105[/ATTACH]</p><p>As you can see, the gentleman was well loved, as the definition on the top of his head is worn down.</p><p><br /></p><p>Stephenson called Boston his home in his adult years, his address being listed as 5 1/2 Tremont Row in the 1848 edition of The Boston Directory.</p><p><br /></p><p>Born in Yorkshire, England in 1823, Stephenson emigrated with his family to America at the age of 4. Following the death of his father in 1835, Stephenson moved to Buffalo NY to live with his brother, who taught him the jewelry and watchmaking trade. He started cutting cameos in 1839 at the age of 16, and continued to do so for the remainder of his life. Aspiring to be a sculptor, he moved to Boston in 1843 where he continued to cut cameos while learning more of sculpting. By 1845, he had amassed enough money from his cameo business that he set sail for Italy and fulfilled his dream of studying antique sculpture.</p><p><br /></p><p>He returned to Boston in 1847 and struggled to make it as a sculptor, as the current taste was towards European, not American, artists. He died of mental illness in 1861.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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