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Daniel Chester French in 1902. Daniel Chester French (1850–1931) was an American sculptor who was active in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, to Anne Richardson French and Henry Flagg French on April 20, 1850. [1] His father, a polymath, was a judge and college president who popularized the French ...
Daniel Chester French (April 20, 1850 – October 7, 1931) was an American sculptor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His works include The Minute Man , an 1874 statue in Concord, Massachusetts , and his 1920 monumental statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor is a 2022 documentary film by Eduardo Montes-Bradley about Daniel Chester French, a leading American sculptor best known for his rendering of the seated President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., produced by Heritage Film Project with the support of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Chesterwood. [1]
The Statue of The Republic is a 24-foot-high (7.3 m) gilded bronze sculpture in Jackson Park, Chicago, Illinois by Daniel Chester French. It is based on a colossal original statue, which was a centerpiece of the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. That statue was made of temporary materials and was destroyed after the fair.
The architectural setting was initially designed by architect C. Howard Walker, but this was redesigned by French's frequent collaborator Henry Bacon in 1914, and finally replaced in 1945 by one designed the Boston firm of Andrews, Jones Boscoe and Whitmore, at which time the location of the monument was changed. The bronze portion was cast in ...
At a meeting held on July 20, sculptor Daniel Chester French was selected to design a statue of Hoar, with the pedestal to be designed by Peabody and Stearns and created by the Norcross Brothers. [6] The location for the monument, the northern side of the Worcester City Hall, [7] was selected by the trustees on January 16, 1908. [6]