# Senator William Campbell Preston

- By: Hiram Powers (born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873)
- Date: modeled 1837
- Medium: plaster
- Classification: Sculpture
- Dimensions: 26 7/8 x 23 7/8 x 12 1/4 in. (68.3 x 60.6 x 31.0 cm)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase in memory of Ralph Cross Johnson
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=20130)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/f9a2a6e9deb019386cbfee4a6148f41e.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

William Campbell Preston was the elder brother of John S. Preston, who funded Hiram Powers’s move to Italy in 1837. The Preston brothers became significant patrons of the artist during his time in Washington, commissioning portraits and introducing him to prominent men in the city. Senator Preston and his wife ordered marble replicas of their portraits to be completed after Powers reached Italy, giving the artist some guaranteed income after his departure from America.