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LARKIN GOLDSMITH MEAD (1835— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 945 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LARKIN

GOLDSMITH MEAD (1835— )  ,
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American sculptor, was born at Chesterfield, New Hampshire, on the 3rd of Jinuary 1835 . He was a pupil (1853—1855) of Henry Kirke Brown . During the early
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part of the
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Civil War he was at the front for six months, with the army of the
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Potomac, as an artist for Harper's Weekly; and in 1862—1865 he was in Italy, being for part of the time attached to the
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United States consulate at Venice, while William D . Howells, his
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brother-in-law, was consul . He returned to
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America in 1865, but subsequently went back to Italy and lived at Florence . His first important
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work was a statue of Ethan Allen, now at the State House,
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Montpelier,
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Vermont . His
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principal
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works are: the monument to President Lincoln,
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Springfield,
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Illinois; " Ethan Allen " (1876),
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National Hall of Statuary, Capitol, Washington; an heroic marble statue, " The
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Father of Waters," New Orleans; and " Triumph of
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Ceres," made for the Columbian Exposition, Chicago . His brother, WILLIAM RUTHERFORD MEAD (1846– ), graduated at Amherst College in 1867, and studied architecture in New York under Russell Sturgis, and also abroad . In 1879 he and J . F . McKim, with whom he had been in partnership for two years as architects, were joined by Stanford White, and formed the well-known
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firm of McKim, Mead & White .

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