Larkin Goldsmith Mead
Larkin Goldsmith Mead (born January 3, 1835 in Chesterfield , New Hampshire , † October 15, 1910 in Florence ) was an American sculptor .
Mead was born in Chesterfield and was a student of Henry Kirk Brown. During the Civil War , he spent six months on the front lines with the Army of the Potomac as an illustrator for Harper's Weekly . 1862-1865 he spent in Italy , where he spent part of this time at the American consulate in Venice , where his brother-in-law William Dean Howells was consul. He returned to the United States in 1865, but then came back to Italy and lived in Florence from then on .
His first major work was a statue called Agriculture that was to embellish the Vermont State House building in Montpelier . This work proved successful and shortly afterwards he was engaged to create a statue of Ethan Allen . Mead's works belong to neoclassicism . His most important works are the monument to President Abraham Lincoln in Springfield , Illinois , the statue of Ethan Allen (1876) in the National Statuary Hall , on the Capitol in Washington DC, The Father of Waters for the Minneapolis City Hall and Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis , Minnesota , Triumph of Ceres , a work made for the World'Typs Columbian Exposition in Chicago , and a large Lincoln bust in Vermont State House.
His brother William Rutherford Mead (1846–1928) was a well-known architect.
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- Encyclopædia Britannica , 11th edition. 1910-1911.
Web links
- [1] State House Statues by Larkin Goldsmith Mead, Jr.
- [2] National Park Service Lincoln birthplace site
- [3] Standing Lincoln by Mead at Lincoln gravesite
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| SURNAME | Mead, Larkin Goldsmith |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chesterfield , New Hampshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 1910 |
| Place of death | Florence |