VOLK, LEONARD WELLS (1828-1895)

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VOLK, LEONARD WELLS (1828-1895) , American sculptor, was born at Wellstown (now Wells), Hamilton county, New

York

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, on the 7th of November 1828.. He first followed the trade of a marble cutter with his father at Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In 1848 he opened a studio at St Louis, Missouri, and in 1855 was sent by his wife's

cousin

, Stephen A. Douglas, to Rome to study. Returning to America in 1857, he settled in Chicago, where he helped to establish an Academy of Design and was for eight years its head. Among his principal works are the Douglas monument at Chicago and the Soldiers' and Sailors' monument at Rochester, New

York

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HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
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- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
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, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

, and statues of President Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas (in the Illinois State Capitol at

Springfield

SPRINGFIELD

, Ill.), and of General James Shields (in Statuary

Hall

, Capitol, Washington), Elihu B. Washburn, Zachariah Chandler and David Davis. In 186o he made a life-mask (now in the National Museum, Washington) of Lincoln, of whom only one other, by

Clark

Mills in 1865, was ever made. His son, Douglas Volk (b. 1856), figure and portrait painter, who studied under J. L. Ger6me in Paris, became a member of the Society of American Artists in 188o and of the National Academy of Design in 1899.

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