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LAUNT THOMPSON (1833-1894)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 870 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMPSON (1833-1894)  , See also:American sculptor, was See also:born at Abbeyleix, See also:Ireland, on the 8th of See also:February 1833 . In 1847 he emigrated to the See also:United States, and settled with his See also:mother at See also:Albany, New See also:York . After studying See also:anatomy in the See also:office of a physician, Dr Armsby, he spent nine years in' the studio of the sculptor, E . D . See also:Palmer . In 1857 he opened a studio in New York, and in 1862 became a See also:National Academician . He visited See also:Rome in 1868-1869, and from 1875 to 1887 was again in See also:Italy, living for most of the See also:time at See also:Florence . He died at See also:Middletown, New York, on the 26th of See also:September 1894 . Among his important See also:works are : " See also:Napoleon the First," at the See also:Metropolitan Museum, New York; " See also:Abraham See also:Pierson," first See also:president of Yale University, New Haven, See also:Connecticut; an equestrian statue of See also:General A . E . See also:Burnside, See also:Providence, Rhode See also:Island; " General See also:Winfield See also:Scott," Soldiers' See also:Home, See also:Washington, D.C.; "See also:Admiral S . F .

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

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