Daniel Chester French
Where is Daniel Chester French buried? Where is his daughter, Margaret, buried?
French is buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, MA.
Margaret is buried next to her husband, William Penn Cresson, in the cemetery of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Oaks, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
Daniel Chester French (Photo courtesy of the Chapin Library, Williams College, [...]
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In the small town of Concord, Massachusetts, there stands one of the greatest icons of American art, dedicated one hundred years to the day after the Revolutionary War battle it commemorated. In 1872, a committee of citizens awarded a commission to create a monument commemorating the battle at the North Bridge to promising local sculptor [...]
When Daniel Chester French began his life as a sculptor, the most famous American public monuments were portrait figures and equestrian statues, installed in the rotundas of public buildings and in parks. The Lincoln Memorial, executed at the end of his career, reflects the expansion of the role of both the artist and architect. Both figures had become [...]
Following the Spanish-American War (April-August, 1898), the vast territorial empire that was the United States extended from Cuba to the Philippines. By the early 1900s, approximately three-quarters of all federal revenue came from customs duties, most of it through the bustling port of New York. Sited in lower Manhattan, the scale and splendor of the [...]
“A dry fountain is a pitiful spectacle…”
- Daniel Chester French to the Commission of Fine Arts
In 1882, Congress authorized the creation of a statue honoring Civil War Admiral Samuel du Pont, to be located in a newly-fashionable neighborhood in the District of Columbia, not far from the White House. The du Pont family, however, never [...]
Daniel Chester French (1850-1931)
Daniel Chester French was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, on April 20, 1850, to a distinguished New England family. He was the youngest of four children born to Henry Flagg French, a lawyer, judge and farmer, and his wife, Anne Richardson French.
The Frenches were a supportive family that valued and nurtured Daniel’s artistic talent. [...]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has added a biography and timeline for Daniel Chester French to the Met’s timeline of Art History. This is an incredibly useful resource with links and images. Check it out!
President Obama spoke about Daniel Chester French during his remarks at the America’s Promise Alliance Education Event on March 1, 2010.
The reference to French came at the end of the President’s speech:
Now, there’s an old story that Colin [Powell] has told about a man named George Ellis, who lived about a hundred years ago. And George Ellis was a [...]
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