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ADAM, LAMBERT SIGISBERT (1700-1759)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 172 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: A10-ADA
ADAM, LAMBERT SIGISBERT (1700-1759) , French sculptor, known as
Adam
  Paine, was born in
Nancy
 , son of Jacob Sigisbert
Adam
 , a sculptor of little repute. Adam was thirty-seven when, on his election to the
Academy
 , he exhibited at the Salon the model of the group of " Neptune and Amphitrite " for the centre of the fountain at
Versailles
 , and thereafter found much employment in the decoration of the royal residences. Among his more important works are " Nymphs and Tritons," " The
Triumph
  of Neptune stilling the Waves," " Hunter with Lion in his Net," a relief for the chapel of St Adelaide, " The Seine and the Marne " in stone for St Cloud, " Hunting " and " Fishing," marble groups for Berlin, " Mars embraced by Love " and " The enthusiasm of Poetry." Adam restored with much ability the twelve statues (Lycomedes) found in the So-called Villa of Marius at Rome, and was elected a member of the
Academy
  of St Luke. Several of his most important works were executed for Frederick the
Great
  in Prussia.
His brother, also a sculptor, NIcoi s SEBASTIEN ADAM (1705-1778), known as Adam le jeune, born in
Nancy
 , worked under equal encouragement. His first
work
  of importance was his " Prometheus chained, devoured by a Vulture," executed in plaster in 1738, dnd carved in marble in 1763 as his " reception piece " when he was elected into the Academy. He produced the reliefs of the "
Birth
  " and " Agony of Christ " for the Oratoryin Paris, but his
chief
  works are the "
Mausoleum
  of Cardinal de Fleury " and, in particular, the tomb of Catherine Opalinska, queen of Poland (wife of King Stanislaus), at Nancy.
A third brother, FRANCOIS GASPARD BALTHASAR ADAM (1710-1761), born in Nancy, became the first sculptor of Frederick the
Great
  and the head of the atelier of sculpture founded by that monarch, and passed the greater part of his life in Berlin. His
chief
  works adorn the gardens and palaces of Sans Souci and Potsdam.
The
work
  of the brothers Adam was too ornate in style to win the approval of the school that immediately followed them, and found its principal opponents in Bouchardon and Pigalle.
See Dussieux, Artistes francais d l'etranger (Paris, 1855, 8vo) ; Archives de Part francais, documents, vol. i. pp. 117-180, chiefly for; works executed for the king of Prussia; Mariette, Abecedario; Emile de la Chavignerie and Auvray, Dictionnaire general des artistes de l'ecole franpise (Paris, 1882), mainly for works executed; Lady Dilke, French Architects and Sculptors of the 18th century (London, 4t0, 1900).


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