Daniel Chester French (1850-1931)

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  Daniel Chester French (1850-1931)

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  PROPERTY FROM THE CHARLES R. WOOD FOUNDATION u - DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH 1850-1931 THE MINUTE MAN

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  Daniel Chester French (American 1850-1931), Daybre

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  Daniel Chester French (American, 1850-1931) The Chicago Incendiary; Bisque; Signed "D.C. FRENCH" and titled "THE CHICAGO INCENDIARY"; 5" high; Provenance: Joan Bogart Antiques, Rockville Centre, NY

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Daniel Chester French Biography

(b Exeter, NH, 20 April 1850; d Stockbridge, MA, 7 Oct 1931). American sculptor. Essentially self-taught, he studied briefly in the 1870s with John Quincy Adams Ward, William Rimmer, William Morris Hunt and Thomas Ball. In 1873 he was awarded the substantial commission for the life-size Minute Man (bronze, 1874) erected in Minute Man National Historical Park, Concord, MA, to commemorate the Battle of Concord. In what became one of his best-known pieces, he adapted the Classical Apollo Belvedere (Rome, Vatican, Mus. Pio-Clementino) for his New England farmer to create a sturdy image that forcefully characterizes the determined patriotism of the men who defended their land. After two years in Italy (1874–6), French worked in Washington, DC, and Boston, MA, executing architectural sculpture and a number of portraits, including a distinguished marble bust of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1879; Cambridge, MA, Harvard U.).

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