Abraham Lincoln Bronze Bust by George E. Bissell THE EMANCIPATOR

Abraham Lincoln Bronze Bust by George E. Bissell THE EMANCIPATOR

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Abraham Lincoln Bronze Bust by George E. Bissell THE EMANCIPATOR:
$7499.00

George Edwin Bissell (1839-1920)
Bust Portait ofAbraham Lincoln Gorham Bronze Company, Originally Cast 1898
(Modeled After Bissell\'s Life Size Emancipator Group in Scotland and Clermont, Iowa)All Proper Markings/Signed
Inscribed \'Geo. E Bissell/Sc./Copyrighted/GORHAM Co./FOUNDERS\' and stamped \'Q47\' (on the reverse)
Bronze with brown patina
App: 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) High x 9 1/2\" Wide
Excellent Condition
(These have sold as high as $10,000 in recent years at sale - $10,625 at Christie\'s, September 27, 2011)
Packing: $135 insured in professional, well insulated box.
George E. BissellGeorge Bissell (1839-1920) was a Civil War veteran, serving with the 23rdCT. and as a Navy paymaster with the South Atlantic squadron. Bissell had originally learned sculpting in his father’s marble business and post-war rejoined his father and specialized in public monuments, crafting life-sized statues. Among his other important public works is theSoldiers and Sailors Monumentat Waterbury, CT. and the bronze statue of General Gates on the Saratoga battleground at Schuylerville, NY. Bissell alsoproduced the first Lincoln sculpture erected outside the United States, the well-known (and copied)Emancipation Group(1893) in Edinburgh, Scotland.Bissell was responsible forHospitalityfor the Pan-American Exposition and “bothScienceandMusicfor the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, winning the silver medal for the latter.He was known as “Père Bissell” by the younger sculptors who knew him.Sculptor Loredo Taft stated, Bissell’s work “would seem incredible were it not for the fact that (he) had kept abreast the work of other recognized master sculptors by visiting them frequently and constantly associating with other of skill and attainment. He is a true artist deeply interested in the personalities of his subjects.”We would add the fact that Bissell, when given his very first commission for a life-size statue in marble, without previous experience, modeled the figure from life and carved it in marble and, as Taft said, “Thus compassing in his first efforts the sculptural and mechanical processes of the art.”George Edwin BissellFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaLincoln Memorial (1893),Old Calton Burying Ground,Edinburgh, Scotland.George Edwin Bissell(February 16, 1839 – August 30, 1920) was anAmericansculptor.Contents[hide]
  • Biography[edit]Bissell was bornNew Preston, Connecticut, the son of a quarryman and marble-cutter. During theAmerican Civil Warhe served as a private in the23rd Connecticut Volunteersin theDepartment of the Gulf(1862-1863), and on being mustered out became acting assistant paymaster in theSouth Atlantic Squadron. At the close of the war he joined his father\'s marble business inPoughkeepsie, New York.[1]He studied the art of sculpture abroad in 1875-1876, and lived much inParisduring the years 1883-1896, with occasional visits to America.[1]Bissell also created smaller works, such as a bust of President Abraham Lincoln as well as a larger statue of the president.[2]Selected works[edit]
    • Frederic de Peyster,New York Historical Society,New York City, ca. 1875.
    • Chatfield Monument, Riverside Cemetery,Waterbury, Connecticut, ca. 1880.
    • General Horatio Gates, Saratoga Battle Monument,Saratoga, New York, 1885-86.[3]
    • Sam Sloan,Lackawanna Ferry Terminal,Hoboken, New Jersey, 1889.
    • Chancellor John Watts,Trinity Churchyard, New York City, 1890.
    • Bas-relief panel of Robert Burns and Highland Mary, on pedestal ofG. A. Lawson\'sStatue of Robert Burns,Ayr, Scotland, 1891.
    • ColonelAbraham de Peyster,New York Historical Society, 1896. This statue stood inBowling Green Parkfrom 1896 to 1972, and inHanover Squarefrom 1976 to 2004.
    • Chester A. Arthur,Madison Square, New York City, 1898-99.
    • Abraham Lincoln,Lightner Museum,St. Augustine, Florida, 1899.
    • Chancellor James Kent,Library of Congress,Washington, D.C., ca. 1899.
    Civil War monuments[edit]
    • Union Soldier, Civil War Monument, Town Green,Colchester, Connecticut, 1875.
    • Soldiers\' Monument, The Green,Waterbury, Connecticut, 1882-85.[4]
    • Soldiers\' Monument, Soldiers\' Monument Park,Winsted, Connecticut, 1887-90.[5]
    • Columbia, atop Soldiers\' Monument, Civil War Memorial Park,Salisbury, Connecticut, 1891.[6]
    • Lincoln Memorial (In Memory of Scottish-American Soldiers),Old Calton Burying Ground,Edinburgh, Scotland, 1893.
    • Bust of Admiral John A. B. Dahlgren,Smith Memorial Arch,Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1901-04.
    • Abraham Lincoln,Lincoln Park, Clermont, Iowa, 1902.[7]A replica of Bissell\'s statue in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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