Background
Goddard, Ralph Bartlett was born on June 18, 1861 in Meadville, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Frederick Bartlett and Lydia Jane (Mason) Goddard.
Goddard, Ralph Bartlett was born on June 18, 1861 in Meadville, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Frederick Bartlett and Lydia Jane (Mason) Goddard.
Educated Brooklyn public schools, National Academy Design, Art Students’ League, New York, Academie Julian, Paris.
Early years devoted to execution of bronze bas-relief portraits of noted men, including series of 12 of the foremost authors and poets of modern English literature for reproduction in bronze. Made specialty of portrait busts. Statue, the “Première Épreuve,” now in Detroit Museum of Fine Arts, exhibited in Paris Salon, 1897.
Completed for Robert Hoe the bronze heroic statue of Gutenberg erected at Grand and Sheriff Saints, New New York
Finished ideal statue, “Invictus,” 1890.
Member National Sculpture Society.
Married Louise Reynolds Holly. Children: Anna Louise, Madeline Holly.