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DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH (1850– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 99 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH (1850– )  ,
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American sculptor, was born at Exeter, New Hampshire, on the loth of
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April 185o, the son of Henry Flagg French, a lawyer, who for a time was assistant-secretary of the
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United States
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treasury . After a
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year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, French spent a month in the studio of John Q . A . Ward, then began to
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work on commissions, and at the age of twenty-three received from the
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town of Concord, Massachusetts, an order for his well-known statue " The Minute Man," which was unveiled (April 19, 1875) on the centenary of the
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battle of Concord . Previously French had gone to Florence, Italy, where he spent a year with Thomas Ball . French's best-known work is "
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Death Staying the Hand of the Sculptor," a memorial for the tomb of the sculptor Martin Milmore, in the
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Forest Hills cemetery, Boston ; this received a medal of honour at Paris, in 1900 . Among his other
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works are: a monument to John Boyle O'Reilly; Boston; " Gen . Cass,"
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National Hall of Statuary, Washington; " Dr Gallaudet and his First
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Deaf-Mute Pupil," Washington; the
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colossal " Statue of the Republic," for the Columbian Exposition at Chicago; statues of Rufus Choate (Boston), John Harvard (Cambridge, Mass.), and Thomas Starr King (
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San Francisco, California), a memorial to the architect Richard M . Hunt, in Fifth Avenue, opposite the
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Lenox library, New York, and a large "
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Alma Mater," near the approach to
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Columbia University, New York . In collaboration with
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Edward C . Potter he modelled the " Washington," presented to France by the Daughters of the American Revolution; the "General Grant" in Fairmount Park,
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Philadelphia, and the " General Joseph Hooker " in Boston . French became a member of the National Academy of Design (1901), the National Sculpture Society, the Architectural
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League, and the Accademia di San Luca, of Rome .

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