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THOMPSON (1833-1894)  , American sculptor, was born at Abbeyleix, Ireland, on the 8th of February 1833 . In 1847 he emigrated to the United States, and settled with his mother at Albany, New York . After studying anatomy in the office of a physician, Dr Armsby, he spent nine years in' the studio of the sculptor, E . D . Palmer . In 1857 he opened a studio in New York, and in 1862 became a National Academician . He visited Rome in 1868-1869, and from 1875 to 1887 was again in Italy, living for most of the time at Florence . He died at Middletown, New York, on the 26th of September 1894 . Among his important works are : " Napoleon the First," at the Metropolitan Museum, New York; " Abraham Pierson," first president of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; an equestrian statue of General A . E . Burnside, Providence, Rhode Island; " General Winfield Scott," Soldiers' Home, Washington, D.C.; "Admiral S . F .

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Pont " (Washington, D.C.) ; " General John Sedgwick (West Point, N.Y.); a medallion portrait of General John A . Dix; and portrait busts of James Gordon Bennett, William Cullen Bryant, S . F . B . Morse, Edwin Booth as Hamlet, Stephen H . Tyng and Robert B . Minturn .