Martin Milmore

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Martin Milmore (*  1844 in County Sligo , † July 1883 in Roxbury ) was an American sculptor of Irish descent.

Life

His 1867 American Civil War Memorial in Boston Forest Hills Cemetery
The Sphinx he created in 1872 in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge
Grave memorial for him in the Forest Hills Cemetery

He immigrated from Ireland to Boston in the United States as a boy of seven . There he attended the Boston Latin School until 1860 , then took art classes at the Lowell Institute and learned from his brother Joseph (1841–1886), who was three years older than him, to carve wood and cut stone . He learned sculpture from the sculptor Thomas Ball (1819–1911) until the mid-1860s. During this time the American Civil War raged from 1861 to 1865 , which had a strong impact on him.

One of his first works was the bust for Charles Sumner (1811–1874), American politician and Senator for Massachusetts , which is now on display in the United States Senate . Shortly afterwards he created the statue of a soldier  (picture) , which was erected in 1867 in the Forest Hills Cemetery in his home in Roxbury, now a district of Boston.

One of his best-known works is the Sphinx  (picture), created in 1872 in the Mount Auburn cemetery in Cambridge . It bears the inscription:

"American Union Preserved
African Slavery Destroyed
By the Uprising of a Great People
By the Blood of Fallen Heroes"

"American Union Preserves
African Slavery Destroyed
By The Uprising Of A Great People
By The Blood Of Heroes Fallen"

- Martin Milmore

From 1874 he created the Soldiers and Sailors Monument , which was erected in 1877 as a victory column on Flag Staff Hill in Boston Common .

Still very young, he was torn from life due to cirrhosis of the liver and was himself buried in the Forest Hills cemetery. In 1889, his family commissioned a special grave monument for him and his brother Joseph (1841–1886), who died three years after him and was buried next to him . The work was carried out by Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) and completed in 1893. It is the bronze - sculpture Death and the Sculptor ( German  "Death and the Sculptor" )  (picture) , which allegorically shows how a young sculptor at work from the Angel of Death is visited.

Web links

Commons : Martin Milmore  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Milmore and the Angel of Death at AKNextPhase.com (English), accessed on August 18, 2019.
  2. ↑ Charles Sumner at Senate.gov (English), accessed on August 18 of 2019.
  3. ↑ LibraryIreland.com , accessed August 18, 2019.
  4. ^ Daniel Chester French: The Milmore Memorial. at YeoDoug.com , accessed August 18, 2019.

Coordinates: 42 ° 17 '52.3 "  N , 71 ° 6' 27.2"  W.

personal data
SURNAME Milmore, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH County Sligo
DATE OF DEATH July 1883
Place of death Roxbury