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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 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.
Liberty Ship Edward Bates in convoy UGS 30 was sunk by aircraft on 1 February 1944. Liberty Ships Virginia Dare and Daniel Chester French were sunk when convoy UGS 33 entered an Allied minefield on 6 March 1944.
Mar 15, 2022 · Daniel Chester French, Richard Morris Hunt Memorial, 1900. Fifth Avenue at 70th St. Not long afterwards, French was commissioned to create a figure of Alma Mater to sit in front of Columbia University’s Low Memorial Library, another City Beautiful building.
The furniture of historic Europe represented by a rare table designed by Piranesi and a French 18th-century wall clock of exceptional quality. The Currier Museum is also known for its extensive collection glass paperweights, which is of exceptional quality and represents the major 19th- and 20th-century American and French makers.
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.
It is no wonder that Daniel Chester French sought respite from the noise and frenzy of New York City and created Chesterwood, his retreat in the Berkshires. French was rooted firmly in the traditions of New England, with ancestors who sailed from England in 1630, landing in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
