French, Daniel Chester
American sculptor
born April 20, 1850, Exeter, N.H., U.S.
died Oct. 7, 1931, Stockbridge, Mass.
sculptor whose work is probably more familiar to a wider American audience than that of any other native sculptor.
French's first important commission, which came from the town of Concord, Mass., was the statue “The Minute Man” (1875), commemorating the Concord fight 100 years earlier. It became the symbol for defense bonds, stamps, and posters of World War II. French's great marble, the seated Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., was dedicated in 1922. In the intervening 50 years he created a vast number of works on American subjects. Among these are the equestrian statues of General Ulysses S. Grant in Philadelphia and General George Washington in Paris; three pairs of bronze doors for the Boston Public Library; the “Standing Lincoln,” Lincoln, Neb.; the statue of Ralph Waldo Emerson in the public library, Concord, Mass.; the “Alma Mater” at Columbia University; and the “Four Continents” at the New York City customhouse.- Andrew Boorde
- Andrew Browne Cunningham
- Andrew Carnegie
- Andrew Dickson White
- Andrew Ducrow
- Andrew Ellicott Douglass
- Andrewes, Lancelot
- Andrew Fisher
- Andrew Foote
- Andrew Forman
- Andrew Fuller
- Andrew Hamilton
- Andrew I
- Andrew II
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson: A Permanent Habitation for the American Indians
- Andrew Jackson Downing
- Andrew Jackson: Farewell Address
- Andrew Jackson: First Annual Message to Congress
- Andrew Jackson: First Inaugural Address
- Andrew Jackson: On Indian Removal
- Andrew Jackson: Second Inaugural Address
- Andrew, John Albion
- Andrew Johnson
- Andrew Johnson: Proclamation of Amnesty and Pardon for the Confederate States