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MEAD, LARKIN GOLDSMITH (1835 )

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 945 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MEAD, LARKIN GOLDSMITH (1835 ) , American sculptor, was born at Chesterfield, New
Hampshire
 , on the 3rd of Jinuary 1835. He was a pupil (18531855) of Henry Kirke
Brown. During the early part of the Civil War he was at the front for six months, with the army of the Potomac, as an artist for Harper's Weekly; and in 18621865 he was in Italy, being for part of the time attached to the United States consulate at Venice, while William D. Howells, his brother-in-law, was
consul
 . He returned to America in 1865, but subsequently went back to Italy and lived at Florence. His first important work was a statue of Ethan Allen, now at the State
House
 , Montpelier, Vermont. His principal works are: the monument to President Lincoln,
Springfield
 , Illinois; " Ethan Allen " (1876), National
Hall
  of Statuary, Capitol, Washington; an heroic marble statue, " The Father of Waters," New Orleans; and " Triumph of Ceres," made for the Columbian Exposition, Chicago.
His brother, WILLIAM RUTHERFORD
MEAD
  (1846 ), graduated at Amherst College in 1867, and studied architecture in New
York
  under Russell Sturgis, and also abroad. In 1879 he and J. F. McKim, with whom he had been in partnership for two years as architects, were joined by Stanford White, and formed the well-known firm of McKim,
Mead
  & White.


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