Ulric Stonewall Jackson Dunbar

Ulric Stonewall Jackson Dunbar (January 31, 1862 1927) was a Canadian-born American sculptor.

Early life Ulric Stonewall Jackson Dunbar was born on January 31, 1862, in London, Canada West, the son of Alexander Dunbar and Susannah Jackson. He attended the Art School of Toronto with his brother Frederick and in around 1880, Ulric Dunbar emigrated from Canada to the United States to pursue a career in sculpting.

Career

After working for five years in Philadelphia, Dunbar moved to Washington, D.C. In 1886, he was commissioned to sculpt a model of Vice President Thomas Hendricks that took some four years to complete and was praised for its "straightforward, sober likeness with a degree of honest naturalism". Dunbar subsequently completed a "first-rate" marble bust of President Martin Van Buren. Ulric Dunbar died in Washington, D.C., in 1927. He sculpted a bust of the German-American landscape painter Max Weyl, who also lived in Washington, D.C. and whose works hung in the White House and is in the permanent collection at The Corcoran Art Gallery.