Larkin Goldsmith Mead

Larkin Goldsmith Mead ( born January 3, 1835 in Chesterfield, New Hampshire, † October 15, 1910 in Florence) was an American sculptor.

Mead was born in Chesterfield and was a student of Henry Kirk Brown. During the Civil War he spent as an illustrator for Harper 's Weekly six months on the front with the Army of the Potomac. 1862-1865 he spent in Italy, where he spent part of that time at the American Consulate in Venice, where his brother William Dean Howells was consul. He returned in 1865 to the United States back, but then came back to Italy and went to live in Florence.

His first important work was a statue with the name of agriculture, agriculture, should beautify the building of the Vermont State Houses in Montpelier. This work proved successful and shortly after you signed him for the creation of a statue of Ethan Allen. Mead's work belongs to the neo-classicism. His most important works are the monument of President Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, the Stutue by Ethan Allen ( 1876) in the National Statuary Hall in the Capitol in Washington DC, The Father of Waters for the Minneapolis City Hall and Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Triumph of Ceres, one produced for the World'Typs Columbian Exposition in Chicago work, and a large bust of Lincoln in the Vermont State House.

His brother William Rutherford Mead (1846-1928) was a renowned architect.

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• Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition. From 1910 to 1911.