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Death's head carved by John Homer, Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Massachusetts Stone carving by William Mumford, Granary Burying Ground Funerary art in Puritan New England encompasses graveyard headstones carved between c. 1640 and the late 18th century by the Puritans, founders of the first American colonies, and their descendants.
Tombstone Carver, Soldier in French and Indian War & American Revolutionary War. Years active. 1747−1798. Gershom Bartlett (February 19, 1723 – December 23, 1798) was a stone carver who carved tombstones in colonial Connecticut and Vermont. His carved gravestones are widespread in colonial burying grounds in eastern Connecticut as well as ...
Zerubbabel Collins. Zerubbabel Collins (1733–1797) was a carver of stone gravestones in New England in the 18th century. He has been called "one of the most important carvers represented in Vermont in the years after the American Revolution" [1] and "one of the most talented [gravestone carvers] of his time". [2]
A. Bartlett Adams (1776–1828). Popular gravestone carver of Portland, Maine in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Richard Adams (1784–1845). Popular gravestone carver who worked out of Portland, Bath, Brunswick, and Topsham, Maine, in the early 19th century. Brother of Bartlett Adams.
The Piccirilli brothers were an Italian family of renowned marble carvers and sculptors who carved many of the most significant marble sculptures in the United States, including Daniel Chester French ’s colossal Abraham Lincoln (1920) in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
29 Thames Street. Coordinates. 41°29′33.88″N 71°18′56.09″W / 41.4927444°N 71.3155806°W / 41.4927444; -71.3155806. Owner. Nicholas Benson. The John Stevens Shop, founded in 1705, is a stone carving business on Thames Street in Newport, Rhode Island, that is one of the oldest continuously operating businesses in the United ...
Pages in category "American gravestone carvers" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
George Grey Barnard (May 24, 1863 – April 24, 1938), often written George Gray Barnard, was an American sculptor who trained in Paris.He is especially noted for his heroic sized Struggle of the Two Natures in Man at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, his twin sculpture groups at the Pennsylvania State Capitol, and his Lincoln statue in Cincinnati, Ohio.