Background
Elwell, Francis Edwin was born on June 15, 1858 in Concord, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John W. and Clara (Farrar) E.: educated Concord public schools.
Elwell, Francis Edwin was born on June 15, 1858 in Concord, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John W. and Clara (Farrar) E.: educated Concord public schools.
Studied sculpture first under May Alcott, at Concord. Massachusetts, and at École des Beaux Arts, Paris, and finally under Jean Alexandre Falguiere.
Was the first American sculptor to model a statue in America that was erected in Europe. Received medal, Chicago Exposition, 1893. Gold medal twice, Art Club Philadelphia.
Medal from King of Belgium for study in architecture.
Among his better known works are: monument, “Death of Strength,” Edam, Holland. Bust of Lord Provost of Aberdeen. at Aberdeen.
Statue of “Awakening of Egypt,” Paris. Equestrian statue of General Hancock, Gettysburg.
Monument to Edwin Booth, Mount Auburn, Cambridge.
The two fountains of “Kronos” and “Ceres,” Buffalo Exposition, 1901. “Dickens and Little Nell,” Philadelphia. Statue of “New Life,” Lowell (Massachusetts) Cemetery.
Statue of “Intelligence”.
Busts of Levi P. Morton and Garret A. Hobart, senate chamber, Washington. Statue in stone, “Classic Art,” Art Palace, Saint Louis Exposition, 1904.
Marble statues of “Greece and Rome.” New York Custom House, 1904. Marble bust of Colonel R. T. Van Horn, Journal office, Kansas City, Missoury, 1904.
Monument to General L. P. di Cesnola, Kensico Cemetery, New York, 1903.
“Dispatch Rider” of the American Revolution, Orange, New Jersey. “The Flag,” 7th Rhode Island Infantry, monument at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Dante and Shakespeare for Scranton Memorial Library (in marble).
Statue of “Kronos,” Harvard University.
“The Orchid Dance,” Gorham & Company. Statue of Lincoln, East. Orange Parkway, New Jersey.
Bust of Honorary Robert Miller Walmsley, New Orleans. Bust of Morris Pattan.
Statue of Rear Admiral Charles H. Davis, for United States naval monument, Vicksburg.
Mississippi, 1910. Statue of General Frederick Steele, for National Military Park, Vicksburg, 1911. “Acrosteria” for Agricultural Building, Panama Exposition, 1915.
Bust of Marion Elwell.
Heroic marble “Genius of Memory,” Lowell, Massachusetts, 1915. Heroic bust, in marble of Amzi L. Dodd, for Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, Newark, New Jersey, 1915. Late curator of ancient and modern sculpture, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New New York
Lecturer at Harvard University, et cetera
Medal, Buffalo Exposition, 1901. Honorary colonel 7th Rhode Island Infantry.
Delaware Atlantic Congress for the League of Nations and speaker for same, actively in war work during the war. Home: Weehawken, New Jersey.
Married Annie Marion Benjamin.