French, Daniel Chester (1850-1931)

Name:

French, Daniel Chester (1850-1931)

Title:

Founder, National Sculpture Society, 1893
Member, National Academy of Design, 1901
Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1913
Trustee, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Member, United States Commission of Fine Arts
Member, New Hampshire Historical Society
Chevalier, French Legion of Honor

Born:

04/20/1850

Birthplace:

Exeter, NH

Died:

10/07/1931

Death Location:

Stockbridge, MA

Residence:

Exeter, NH 1850-1867
Concord, MA 1867-
Florence, Italy 1875-1876
Washington, DC
New York, NY 1888, 1910, 1920, 1930
Boston, MA
Stockbridge, MA

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Artist
Sculptor

Father:

French, Henry Flagg (1813-1885)

Mother:

Richardson, Ann (1811-1856)

Relations:

Uncle: Benjamin Brown French (1800-1870)
Cousin: Francis Ormond French (1837-1893; m. Ellen Tuck)
Grandparents: Betsey Smith (c.1779-) & Hon. William Merchant Richardson (1774-1838); Sarah Wingate Flagg (1782-1878) & Daniel French (1769-1840).

Spouse:

French, Mary Adams (1859-1939), July 17, 1888, Washington, DC.

Children:

Margaret, born 1889; died 1973; sculptor; m. William Penn Cresson, born 1864; died 1932

Notes:

Margaret French Cresson, Daniel Chester French. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1947.

Margaret French Cresson, Journey into Fame: the Life of Daniel Chester French. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1947.

Harold Holzer, Monument Man: The Life and Art of Daniel Chester French. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2019.

Michael Richman, Daniel Chester French: An American Sculptor. New York: The Mtropolitan Museumof Art, 1976.

Michael Richman, "Daniel Chester French and Henry Bacon: Public Sculpture in collaboration, 1897-1908," The American Art Journal, 12(Summer, 1980)3, 46-64.

Daniel Chester French Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA