Daniel Chester French

Daniel Chester French (April 20, 1850 – October 7, 1931) was an American sculptor. He was a neighbor and friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the Alcott family. His decision to pursue sculpting was influenced by Louisa May Alcott's sister May Alcott.

Notable works

• Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial
• Standing Lincoln" Nebraska State Capitol . Lincoln, Nebraska
• Alma Mater (sculpture)|Alma Mater, Columbia University in New York City
• The Angel of Death and the Sculptor, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
• Angel of Peace - George Robert White Memorial, Public Garden in Boston, Massachusetts
• Beneficence, Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana
• Casting Bread Upon the Waters - George Robert White Memorial, Public Garden in Boston, Massachusetts
• Rufus Choate memorial, Old Suffolk County Court House, Boston, Massachusetts, 1898
• Clark Memorial, Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
• Republic the colossal centerpiece of the World Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. His 24-foot gilt-bronze reduced version made in 1918 survives in Chicago http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/S/StatueRepublic.html.
• Concord Minute Man, Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts
• Continents (sculpture)|Four Continents, Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in New York City
• The John Harvard Monument, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Richard Morris Hunt Memorial, on the perimeter wall of Central Park, opposite the Frick Collection, in New York City
• Thomas Starr King monument San Francisco, California
• Memory (statue)|Memory, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
• Mourning Victory, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
• John Boyle O'Reilly Memorial, intersection of Boylston Street and Westland Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts
• Progress of the State, Minnesota State Capitol in Saint Paul, Minnesota
• Slocum Memorial, Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
• Brooklyn and Manhattan, Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York