Thomas Crawford

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The Statue of Freedom by Thomas Crawford on the Dome of the Capitol, Washington DC

Thomas G. Crawford (born March 22, 1814 in New York , † October 10, 1857 in London ) was an American sculptor .

Life

Crawford came from an Irish immigrant family. He learned the art of xylography and woodcut but later switched to sculpture . Crawford came to Rome in 1834 at the age of twenty , where he became a student of the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen . Soon Crawford himself was able to gather students; to be mentioned here is the sculptor Leonard Volk and his son, the painter Douglas Volk .

Crawford created an equestrian statue of Washington for the city of Richmond in Virginia with medallions of the most famous leaders from the American Revolutionary War, and with that he also achieved an outstanding artistic breakthrough. Crawford only surpassed this success with his monumental pediment at the Capitol in Washington, DC , where he depicted the main epochs of American history in allegorical pictures. In 1838 Crawford was elected an honorary member ( Honorary NA ) of the National Academy of Design , in 1855 a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Crawford, seriously ill, went to a spa in Great Britain. The sculptor Thomas Crawford died in London on October 10, 1857 at the age of 43.

Works (selection)

  • Orpheus visiting Eurydice in Hades
  • The children in the forest
  • Herodias with the head of John the Baptist
  • flora
  • The dancers and the hunter
  • a bronze statue of Beethoven for the Athenaeum in Boston

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Past Academicians "C" / Crawford, Thomas G. Honorary 1838. ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. nationalacademy.org; Retrieved June 19, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
personal data
SURNAME Crawford, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crawford, Thomas G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH new York
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1857
Place of death London