An outdoor portrait bust

I never expected to find a portrait bust displayed on the exterior of a monument! And it hasn’t been stolen!

The enigma of Anna Houser

It’s not quite “jeder für sich und Gott gegen alles” in this monument, but Anna Houser is an enigma.

Two splendid funerary portraits

A man with the whiskers of Chester A. Arthur and a young woman with an extraordinary dress by a very talented sculptor in Rock Creek Cemetery.

American Funerary Portraits in Glass and Stone

Among the Romans, it was very common, in some periods more than others, to have a portrait of yourself as a part of, or on the premises of, your tomb. It was an assertion of selfhood and existence and social significance before death; or it allowed a commemorator to assert these things for the dead. …