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Daniel Chester French (April 20, 1850 – October 7, 1931) was an American sculptor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is best known for his 1874 sculpture The Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts, and his 1920 monumental statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Daniel Chester French (born April 20, 1850, Exeter, New Hampshire, U.S.—died October 7, 1931, Stockbridge, Massachusetts) was a sculptor of bronze and marble statues and monuments whose work is probably more familiar to a wider American audience than that of any other native sculptor.
At his artistic maturity, Daniel Chester French was an outstanding architectural and public sculptor in the United States. After Saint-Gaudens’s death in 1907, he became the foremost sculptor in America working in the classical tradition—a position relinquished only at his death.
Daniel Chester French is a name most people do not recognize, even though his Lincoln Memorial is known to many Americans. He was born into a prominent Boston family and showed artistic promise as a child, carving little animals out of wood and gypsum.
Daniel Chester French attained prominence as the leading American monumental sculptor of the early twentieth century. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, he spent his youth in Cambridge and Amherst, Massachusetts, before moving with his family to Concord in 1867.
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]
Daniel Chester French was an American sculptor who molded popular understanding of American history and identity in a way few others in the arts have. He is best known for sculpting the Minute Man statue in Concord, Massachusetts and marble statue of Abraham Lincoln within the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.
