Artist: Daniel Chester French (1850 - 1931)
Nationality: American
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Media: Sculpture
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Biography:
Daniel Chester French became famous with his commemorative bronze statue, The Minute Man. After gaining a reputation in the United States, he traveled to France and continued to produce public monuments. His most recognized work was the marble statue of Abraham Lincoln located at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Chester Harding - Daniel Webster 1828-30; 1849-5 oil on canvas Boston Athenaeum American
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Daniel Chester French - Abraham Lincoln 1912 bronze The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Sargent Claude Johnson - Chester 1930 painted terracotta Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Daniel Chester Flavin - Untitled (For Ellen) 1975 flourescent lights a Des Moines Art Center American
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George Bellows - Chester Dale 1922 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Daniel Chester French - The Angel of Death and the Sculptor from the Milmore Memorial 1889-93 marble The Metropolitan Museum of Art American
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William Trost Richards - Glade at Oldmixon, Chester County, Pennsylvania 1881-90 Oil on Masonite The Detroit Institute of Art American
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James Henry Daugherty, Sir John Chester receives a visitor, 1941
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Jan Kip, Knole, the Seat of Tho. Chester Esquire, 17th - 18th century
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John Wesley Jarvis - Portrait of Captain Samuel Chester Reid, 1783-1861 1815 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts American
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John Chester Buttre, Portrait of John B. Webber, 19th - 20th century
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Jan Kip, Eaton Hall on the river Dee naer the city of Chester, 17th - 18th century
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Marked by Richard Richardson II or III Miniature Spoon flatware Chester, England England, (Chester), about
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John Chester Buttre, Portrait of James Alexander McDougall, 19th - 20th century
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John Chester Buttre, Portrait of Thomas Starr King, 19th - 20th century
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John Chester Buttre, Portrait of Henry Martin Gray, 19th - 20th century
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Marked by Richard Richardson II or III Miniature Spoon flatware Chester, England England, (Chester), 1765-70
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Marked by Richard Richardson II or III Miniature Spoon flatware Chester, England England, (Chester), 1765-70
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Marked by Richard Richardson II or III Miniature Spoon flatware Chester, England England, (Chester), 1765-70
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Marked by Richard Richardson II or III Miniature Spoon flatware Chester, England England, (Chester), 1765-70
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Marked by Richard Richardson II or III Miniature Spoon flatware Chester, England England, (Chester), 1765-70
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Marked by Robert Jones I, first mark entered 1786 Skewer flatware Chester, England England, (Chester),
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James Dow, American, Born in 1942 Chester County Courthouse, Chester, South Carolina 1976, printed October
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John Chester Buttre, The Military Souvenir: A Portrait Gallery by Frank J. Bramhall (New York: J. C. Buttre, 1863), 1863
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John Chester Buttre, Portrait of Major-General Henry Wager Halleck, 19th - 20th century
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Daniel and Cyrus before the Idol Bel
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Ward, Leslie Matthew (Spy), "Chester" (Mr. Robert Armstrong Yerburgh, M.P.) Statesman No. 622, from Vanity Fair, October 19, 1893, 1893
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J. Walker, Chester , plate 6 in the book Turner and Girtin*s Picturesque Views, Sixty Years Since (London: J. Hogarth, 1854) , 1854
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Sir Peter Paul Rubens - Daniel in the Lions' Den c. 1614-1616 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Flemish
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Shobal Vail Clevenger - Daniel Webster 1838 marble Utah Museum of Fine Arts American
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Thomas Ball - Daniel Webster 1852 plaster bust Boston Athenaeum American
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Thomas Ball - Daniel Webster 1853 bronze Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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John Singleton Copley - Daniel Hubbard 1764 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Madonna and Child Style of Titian (Italian, Venetian, about 1510-20)Oil on wood; 16 3/4 x
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Henry Ossawa Tanner - Daniel in the Lions' Den 1907-1918 oil on paper mounted Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Ralph Earl - Daniel Boardman 1789 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Daniel Charles Marie Mordant, Au bord de la mer, 1881
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Henri Daniel Plattel, Macedoine: Un Debutant!.., 1858
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Daniel Dumoustier, Portrait of Gabrielle d"Estrees, circa 1600
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Anonymous, Daniel Segers, 19th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Cleveland Museum of Art: French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin
They include works by such well-known masters as François Boucher, Théodore Géricault, Jean-François Millet, and Edgar Degas. Many of these drawings are unknown to both the public and scholars, so this exhibition and its accompanying catalogue hig...
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French Paintbox: Call to Artists: Scholarships for Painting Workshops in France
French Paintbox has two partial scholarships and free RT airfare to Europe (valued up to $2000) available for May, June and July, 2002 for the painting workshop held near Cordes-sur-Ciel, France. The unique workshop is described in detail at ...
BAT Centre: DIROZOULOU
The project was coordinated by Marisa Fick-Jordaan and the Bat Shop in association with the French Institute of South Africa and Association Francaise d' Action Artistique / Ministry of French Foreign Affairs. The exhibition will travel from th...
French Paintbox: Call to Artists: Scholarships for Painting Workshops in France, 2002
Painting on porcelain classes will be held in world-renown Limoges in autumn. All workshops include accommodations, great cuisine and unforgettable excursions.Those who are interested in gardens -- and who can get along with individuals wit...
Philbrook Museum of Art: The Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: GERMAINE KRULL: Photographer of Modernity
Organized by the Folkwang Museum in Germany, the retrospective includes work from her early career in Munich and Berlin, abstract industrial imagery from Amsterdam and Paris, photojournalism produced for magazines in Paris in the...
Brazilian Academy of Literature and French Academy: LITERARY AWARD
Many cultural and political personalities attended the cerimony. In addition to the Academy members also present were the Presidents of Brazil and Mexico, Messrs. Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Ernesto Zedilho, the Honorary President of the Fre...
Getty Museum: FRENCH MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATION OF THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
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National Acrylic Painters' Association: NAPA ESTABLISHES A FRENCH DIVISION
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Victoria and Albert Museum: Unpacking Design: Matali Crasset
Complementing these large obje cts will be a selection of Matali’s furniture and product designs. This will be the first exhibition of Matali Crasset’s work in the UK and is part of the French Designers Days festival organised by the French Cultur...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery: The Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse
The exhibition is currently being presented at the Royal Academy of Art in London, England, before concluding with its visit to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The exhibition has received critical accolades in each of its previous engagements. ...
Frick Art and Historical Center: Masterworks from the Albertina: Renaissance to Rococo
In all, some eighty drawings and twenty-two prints by masters of the German, Dutch, Flemish, Italian, and French schools will be on view. This traveling exhibition will remain at The Frick Art Museum through March 3, 2002. Among the many oth...
Baltimore Museum of Art: The Triumph of French Painting
The Triumph of French Painting features more than thirty celebrated artists, including Ingres, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, van Gogh, Picasso, an...
Aron Packer Gallery: Karen Savage: Lecons de mariage
Leçons de mariage translates as marriage lessons. The nuance of French is applicable here. This notion came from a book by Alice Kaplan called "French Lessons". Savage is a Francophile. Formally, there are no gray areas in French; there is a...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19th-Century French Prints
In the 19th century, Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro continued to experiment with intaglio techniques but also used the new medium of lithography. Lithographs by Toulouse-Lautrec, Vuillard, and Bonnard from the 1890s — the great era of color lith...
Santa Monica Museum of Art: Operation Cote Ouest:
On an invitation from the French government, Curator of Programming Carole Ann Klonarides travelled to Paris and Marseilles in July 1998 to meet with French artists, in particular those whose ideas are realized in the form of installation, media, a...
Dallas Museum of Art: Art Deco and Streamlined Modern: Design 1920–1950
Highlights include exceptional objects designed by American Eugene Schoen in 1935 for the glamorous home of Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz in Washington, D.C. Another significant group of art deco pieces was recently bequeathed to the Museum by ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting
As the title indicates, at the core of the exhibition will be the "Spanish" work of Edouard Manet, whose career thoroughly reveals the importance of Spanish painting by the middle of the 19th century. Manet/Velázquez will feature more paintings by...
Appleton Museum of Art: Marc Chagall: The Early Etchings from the 1920s
Les Ames Morts was Nikolai Gogol’s masterpiece, and considered a classic tale of Russian Literature. The series of plates were completed by Chagall in 1927 and delivered to Vollard who stored them in his cellar for the next 20 years, only to be pu...
National Gallery of Canada: Monet, Renoir, and the Impressionist Landscape
The Impressionists' profound influence on French landscape painting is examined as the exhibition concludes with a look at works by other artists in th...
Apollonia and the Association Francaise d'Action Artistique: The Split Personality Madman
On display will be some 180 works by 70 European artists, in the main Russian and French, chosen from numerous public and private collections. The exhibition opens on the 7th of December 1999 at 4.30 p.m. in Moscow at the Central House of A...
Musee d'Orsay: Courbet and the Commune
Curator : Laurence des Cars, curator, Musée d'Orsay Catalogue : Courbet et la Commune Ed. RMN 120 pages, 30 colour ill., 15 Bb&w ill., paperback Price: ...
National Museum of Fine Arts: Impressionism and the North
There are many links between, mainly French, Impressionism and artists in the Nordic region. The exhibition shows paintings done by Paul Gauguin during his time in Copenhagen in the mid-1800s. In that same period, Danish artist Theodor Philipsen w...
Santa Barbara Museum of Art: From the Sun King to the Royal Twilight: Painting in Eighteenth-Century France from the Musee de Picardie, Amiens
Over the course of the eighteenth century, artists began to receive commissions not only from the court, but also from the bourgeoisie. This shift is reflected in the ...
Dulwich Picture Gallery: The Golden Age of Watercolours : The Hickman Bacon Collection
Sir Hickman Bacon had unusual tastes for his time. The collection is especially strong in the type of late, ethereal Turner watercolour that only became widely popular with the advent of abstract painting in the 1940s and 50s. The works by Girtin ...
Indianapolis Museum of Art: The Huguenot Legacy: English Silver 1680-1760
The Designers The Huguenots, French Protestants, were protected from the religious persecution of Catholic rulers until Louis XIV revoked the ...
Queensland Art Gallery: Belle-Ile: Monet, Russell and Matisse in Brittany
In the late nineteenth century these artists were all drawn to Belle-Île, off the coast of Brittany, France, by their desire to capture on canvas the island’s dramatic, storm-tossed coastline...
Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art: American Impressionists Abroad and at Home: Paintings from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The American impressionists were among the most thoroughly trained, widely traveled and cosmopolitan painters in the history of our nations art. Many artists ...
Louvre Museum: From Delacroix to Matisse: Drawings from the Algiers Museum of Art
Exhibition curators : Arlette Sérullaz, curator at the Department of Graphic Arts, at the Louvre, assigned to the Musée Delacroix Dalila Orfali, director of the Algiers Museum of Fine Arts The restoration of the works was supervised by Nathali...

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