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THOMAS CRAWFORD (1814–1857)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 386 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:CRAWFORD (1814–1857)  , See also:American sculptor, was See also:born of Irish parents in New See also:York on the 22nd of See also:March 1814 . He showed at an See also:early See also:age See also:great See also:taste for See also:art, and learnt to draw and to carve in See also:wood . In his nineteenth See also:year he entered the studio of a See also:firm of monumental sculptors in his native See also:city; and in the summer of 1835 he went to See also:Rome and became a See also:pupil of See also:Thorwaldsen . The first See also:work which made him generally known as a See also:man of See also:genius was his See also:group of " See also:Orpheus entering Hades in See also:Search of See also:Eurydice," executed in 1839 . This was followed by other poetical sculptures, among which were the " Babes in the Wood," " See also:Flora," " See also:Hebe and See also:Ganymede," " See also:Sappho," " See also:Vesta," the " Dancers," and the " See also:Hunter." Among his statues and busts are especially noteworthy the bust of See also:Josiah See also:Quincy, executed for Harvard University (now in the See also:Boston See also:Athenaeum), the equestrian statue of See also:Washington at See also:Richmond, See also:Virginia, the statue of See also:Beethoven in the Boston See also:music See also:hall, statues of See also:Channing and See also:Henry See also:Clay, and the See also:colossal figure of " Armed See also:Liberty " for the Capitol at Washington . For this See also:building he executed also the figures for the See also:pediment and began the bas-reliefs for the See also:bronze doors, which were afterwards completed by W . H . Rinehart . The See also:groups of the pediment symbolize the progress of See also:civilization in See also:America . See also:Crawford's See also:works include a large number of bas-reliefs of Scriptural subjects taken from both the Old and the New Testaments . He made Rome his See also:home, but he visited several times his native See also:land—first in 1844 (in which year he married Louisa See also:Ward), next in 1849, and lastly in 1856 . He died in See also:London on the loth of See also:October 1857 .

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Lincoln See also:Monument, eine Rede See also:des Senator See also:Charles See also:Sumner, to which are appended the See also:biographies of several sculptors, including that of See also:Thomas Crawford (See also:Frankfort a . M., 1868) ; Thomas See also:Hicks, Eulogy on Thomas Crawford (New York, 1865) .

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