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FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )

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

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