1. Antonio Capellano, a student of Antonio Canova, was an Italian sculptor who was employed on various projects in the United States during the period 1815 to 1827. In Baltimore he sculpted reliefs for St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, the Battle Monument, and the First Unitarian Church. In Washington, Capellano produced several works for the U.S. Capitol, including Preservation of Captain Smith by Pocahontas (Van Horne, Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 3:802 n. 4; Donald R. Kennon and Thomas P. Somma, eds., American Pantheon: Sculptural and Artistic Decoration of the United States Capitol [Athens, Ohio, 2004], 38, 40, 42–43, 59, 60, 64–71).

2. William Lee (1772–1840) was born in Nova Scotia and educated in Massachusetts before launching a commercial career in France. Serving first as commercial agent at Marseilles, Lee was appointed by Thomas Jefferson as agent at Bordeaux in June 1801, a post he held until 1816, when he returned to the United States. In November of that year, JM appointed him to a clerkship in the War Department, but some months later he became second auditor of the Treasury, an office he held until Andrew Jackson’s purge of the Washington bureaucracy in 1829 (PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (8 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986—). description ends , 2:18 n. 2; Mary Lee Mann, ed., A Yankee Jeffersonian: Selections from the Diary and Letters of William Lee of Massachusetts [Cambridge, Mass., 1958], 2, 157–59, 186, 212).