Artist: Daniel Chester French (1850 - 1931)
Nationality: American
Movement:
Media: Sculpture
Influences:

Biography:
Daniel Chester French became famous with his commemorative bronze statue, The Minute Man. After gaining a reputation in the United States, he traveled to France and continued to produce public monuments. His most recognized work was the marble statue of Abraham Lincoln located at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
Click the artwork titles below to see actual examples of artwork or works of art relevant to works by Daniel Chester French.

-
Chester Harding - Daniel Webster 1828-30; 1849-5 oil on canvas Boston Athenaeum American
-
Sargent Claude Johnson - Chester 1930 painted terracotta Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
-
George Bellows - Chester Dale 1922 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Daniel Chester Flavin - Untitled (For Ellen) 1975 flourescent lights a Des Moines Art Center American
-
Daniel Chester French - Abraham Lincoln 1912 bronze The Art Institute of Chicago American
-
William Trost Richards - Glade at Oldmixon, Chester County, Pennsylvania 1881-90 Oil on Masonite The Detroit Institute of Art American
-
Daniel Chester French - The Angel of Death and the Sculptor from the Milmore Memorial 1889-93 marble The Metropolitan Museum of Art American
-
John Wesley Jarvis - Portrait of Captain Samuel Chester Reid, 1783-1861 1815 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts American
Museum of Fine Arts -
Marked by Richard Richardson II or III Miniature Spoon flatware Chester, England England, (Chester), about
Museum of Fine Arts -
Marked by Richard Richardson II or III Miniature Spoon flatware Chester, England England, (Chester), 1765-70
Museum of Fine Arts -
Marked by Richard Richardson II or III Miniature Spoon flatware Chester, England England, (Chester), 1765-70
Museum of Fine Arts -
Marked by Richard Richardson II or III Miniature Spoon flatware Chester, England England, (Chester), 1765-70
Museum of Fine Arts -
Marked by Richard Richardson II or III Miniature Spoon flatware Chester, England England, (Chester), 1765-70
Museum of Fine Arts -
Marked by Richard Richardson II or III Miniature Spoon flatware Chester, England England, (Chester), 1765-70
Museum of Fine Arts -
Marked by Robert Jones I, first mark entered 1786 Skewer flatware Chester, England England, (Chester),
Museum of Fine Arts -
James Dow, American, Born in 1942 Chester County Courthouse, Chester, South Carolina 1976, printed October
-
Jan Kip Knole, the Seat of Tho. Chester Esquire 17th - 18th century
-
The River’s Return to the Sea, Chester Beach (United States, 1881 - 1956)  (Artist), 1906, Marble
-
Middleboro, Mass., Chester Michalik (United States, born 1935)  (Artist), 1970, Gelatin-silver print
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Madonna and Child Style of Titian (Italian, Venetian, about 1510-20)Oil on wood; 16 3/4 x
-
John Chester Buttre Portrait of John B. Webber engraving 19th - 20th century
-
Chester, Sargent Claude Johnson (United States, Massachusetts, Boston, 1887 - 1967)  (Artist), 1930, Painted terracotta
-
Chester Morris, George Hurrell (United States, 1904 - 1992) , circa 1932, Gelatin-silver print
-
The World is on Hard, Janet Cooling (United States, Pennsylvania, Chester, born 1951-10-14)  (Artist), 1993, Screenprint
-
Jan Kip Eaton Hall on the river Dee naer the city of Chester 17th - 18th century
-
Woman’s Dress, Chester Weinberg (United States, New York, 1930 - 1985) , circa 1965, Printed silk
-
John Chester Buttre Portrait of Thomas Starr King engraving 19th - 20th century
-
John Chester Buttre Portrait of Henry Martin Gray engraving 19th - 20th century
-
John Chester Buttre Portrait of James Alexander McDougall engraving 19th - 20th century
-
Coal-miner’s Bath, Chester Le Street, Bill Brandt (Germany, 1904 - 1983) , 1937, printed later, Gelatin-silver print
-
Ward, Leslie Matthew (Spy) "Chester" (Mr. Robert Armstrong Yerburgh, M.P.) Statesman No. 622, from Vanity Fair, October 19, 1893 Lithograph 1893
-
John Chester Buttre Portrait of Major-General Henry Wager Halleck engraving 19th - 20th century
-
James Henry Daugherty Sir John Chester receives a visitor Color litho 1941
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Daniel and Cyrus before the Idol Bel
-
J. Walker Chester , plate 6 in the book Turner and Girtin*s Picturesque Views, Sixty Years Since (London: J. Hogarth, 1854) engraving 1854
-
Sir Peter Paul Rubens - Daniel in the Lions' Den c. 1614-1616 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Flemish
-
Shobal Vail Clevenger - Daniel Webster 1838 marble Utah Museum of Fine Arts American
-
Thomas Ball - Daniel Webster 1852 plaster bust Boston Athenaeum American
-
John Singleton Copley - Daniel Hubbard 1764 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago American
-
Thomas Ball - Daniel Webster 1853 bronze Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
-
Louis Bernier (1873) by DUPUIS Jean-Baptiste Daniel, DANIEL-DUPUIS (dit)
-
Henry Ossawa Tanner - Daniel in the Lions' Den 1907-1918 oil on paper mounted Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
-
Ralph Earl - Daniel Boardman 1789 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Woman’s Dress and Shorts, Chester Weinberg (United States, New York, 1930 - 1985) , circa 1965, Printed silk
-
John Chester Buttre The Military Souvenir: A Portrait Gallery by Frank J. Bramhall (New York: J. C. Buttre, 1863) book with 75 steel engravings after photographs 1863
-
Le Jugement de Daniel (17e siècle) by anonyme
-
Chester Harding - Self-Portrait c. 1825 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Le Jugement de Daniel by ZUCCARO Taddeo
-
George Cuitt Old Houses, Lamb Row, Chester - from:Wanderings and Pencillings amongst Ruins of the Olden Times: A Series of Seventy-three Etchings by George Cuitt, Esq. London, 1848. 1814
-
Autoportrait de Daniel Ramée (1841) by RAMEE Daniel
-
Le Jugement de Daniel (17e siècle) by anonyme
-
William Hogarth - Portrait of Daniel Lock, F.S.A. 1762 oil on canvas The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art British
-
John Singer Sargent - Portrait of Mrs. Daniel Curtis 1882 oil on canvas Spencer Museum of Art American
-
G.W. Merrick - Portrait of Daniel Webster after 1846 oil on cardboard Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
-
John Singleton Copley - Daniel Crommelin Verplanck 1771 oil on canvas The Metropolitan Museum of Art American
-
Pablo Picasso - Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler 1910 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago Spanish
-
Diane auprès du corps d'Orion (2e moitié 17e siècle) by SEITER Daniel, CAVALIERE Daniel Il (dit)
-
Le prophète Daniel expliquant au roi Nabuchodonosor le songe by COUSIN Jean le Père
-
Le prophète Daniel (17e siècle) by anonyme
-
Coat Hanger, Daniel Teoli (United States)  (Artist), 1974, Gelatin-silver print

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
Click on any of the links below to read about artnews or exhibitions related to French

Cleveland Museum of Art: French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin
They include works by such well-known masters as François Boucher, Théodore Géricault, Jean-François Millet, and Edgar Degas. Many of these drawings are unknown to both the public and scholars, so this exhibition and its accompanying catalogue hig...
: U.S. Writer Wins WWII Art Suit
...
French Paintbox: Call to Artists: Scholarships for Painting Workshops in France
French Paintbox has two partial scholarships and free RT airfare to Europe (valued up to $2000) available for May, June and July, 2002 for the painting workshop held near Cordes-sur-Ciel, France. The unique workshop is described in detail at ...
BAT Centre: DIROZOULOU
The project was coordinated by Marisa Fick-Jordaan and the Bat Shop in association with the French Institute of South Africa and Association Francaise d' Action Artistique / Ministry of French Foreign Affairs. The exhibition will travel from th...
French Paintbox: Call to Artists: Scholarships for Painting Workshops in France, 2002
Painting on porcelain classes will be held in world-renown Limoges in autumn. All workshops include accommodations, great cuisine and unforgettable excursions.Those who are interested in gardens -- and who can get along with individuals wit...
Philbrook Museum of Art: The Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse
...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: GERMAINE KRULL: Photographer of Modernity
Organized by the Folkwang Museum in Germany, the retrospective includes work from her early career in Munich and Berlin, abstract industrial imagery from Amsterdam and Paris, photojournalism produced for magazines in Paris in the...
Brazilian Academy of Literature and French Academy: LITERARY AWARD
Many cultural and political personalities attended the cerimony. In addition to the Academy members also present were the Presidents of Brazil and Mexico, Messrs. Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Ernesto Zedilho, the Honorary President of the Fre...
Getty Museum: FRENCH MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATION OF THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
...
National Acrylic Painters' Association: NAPA ESTABLISHES A FRENCH DIVISION
...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Unpacking Design: Matali Crasset
Complementing these large obje cts will be a selection of Matali’s furniture and product designs. This will be the first exhibition of Matali Crasset’s work in the UK and is part of the French Designers Days festival organised by the French Cultur...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery: The Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse
The exhibition is currently being presented at the Royal Academy of Art in London, England, before concluding with its visit to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The exhibition has received critical accolades in each of its previous engagements. ...
Frick Art and Historical Center: Masterworks from the Albertina: Renaissance to Rococo
In all, some eighty drawings and twenty-two prints by masters of the German, Dutch, Flemish, Italian, and French schools will be on view. This traveling exhibition will remain at The Frick Art Museum through March 3, 2002. Among the many oth...
Baltimore Museum of Art: The Triumph of French Painting
The Triumph of French Painting features more than thirty celebrated artists, including Ingres, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, van Gogh, Picasso, an...
Aron Packer Gallery: Karen Savage: Lecons de mariage
Leçons de mariage translates as marriage lessons. The nuance of French is applicable here. This notion came from a book by Alice Kaplan called "French Lessons". Savage is a Francophile. Formally, there are no gray areas in French; there is a...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19th-Century French Prints
In the 19th century, Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro continued to experiment with intaglio techniques but also used the new medium of lithography. Lithographs by Toulouse-Lautrec, Vuillard, and Bonnard from the 1890s — the great era of color lith...
Santa Monica Museum of Art: Operation Cote Ouest:
On an invitation from the French government, Curator of Programming Carole Ann Klonarides travelled to Paris and Marseilles in July 1998 to meet with French artists, in particular those whose ideas are realized in the form of installation, media, a...
Dallas Museum of Art: Art Deco and Streamlined Modern: Design 1920–1950
Highlights include exceptional objects designed by American Eugene Schoen in 1935 for the glamorous home of Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz in Washington, D.C. Another significant group of art deco pieces was recently bequeathed to the Museum by ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting
As the title indicates, at the core of the exhibition will be the "Spanish" work of Edouard Manet, whose career thoroughly reveals the importance of Spanish painting by the middle of the 19th century. Manet/Velázquez will feature more paintings by...
Appleton Museum of Art: Marc Chagall: The Early Etchings from the 1920s
Les Ames Morts was Nikolai Gogol’s masterpiece, and considered a classic tale of Russian Literature. The series of plates were completed by Chagall in 1927 and delivered to Vollard who stored them in his cellar for the next 20 years, only to be pu...
National Gallery of Canada: Monet, Renoir, and the Impressionist Landscape
The Impressionists' profound influence on French landscape painting is examined as the exhibition concludes with a look at works by other artists in th...
Apollonia and the Association Francaise d'Action Artistique: The Split Personality Madman
On display will be some 180 works by 70 European artists, in the main Russian and French, chosen from numerous public and private collections. The exhibition opens on the 7th of December 1999 at 4.30 p.m. in Moscow at the Central House of A...
Musee d'Orsay: Courbet and the Commune
Curator : Laurence des Cars, curator, Musée d'Orsay Catalogue : Courbet et la Commune Ed. RMN 120 pages, 30 colour ill., 15 Bb&w ill., paperback Price: ...
National Museum of Fine Arts: Impressionism and the North
There are many links between, mainly French, Impressionism and artists in the Nordic region. The exhibition shows paintings done by Paul Gauguin during his time in Copenhagen in the mid-1800s. In that same period, Danish artist Theodor Philipsen w...
Santa Barbara Museum of Art: From the Sun King to the Royal Twilight: Painting in Eighteenth-Century France from the Musee de Picardie, Amiens
Over the course of the eighteenth century, artists began to receive commissions not only from the court, but also from the bourgeoisie. This shift is reflected in the ...
Dulwich Picture Gallery: The Golden Age of Watercolours : The Hickman Bacon Collection
Sir Hickman Bacon had unusual tastes for his time. The collection is especially strong in the type of late, ethereal Turner watercolour that only became widely popular with the advent of abstract painting in the 1940s and 50s. The works by Girtin ...
Indianapolis Museum of Art: The Huguenot Legacy: English Silver 1680-1760
The Designers The Huguenots, French Protestants, were protected from the religious persecution of Catholic rulers until Louis XIV revoked the ...
Marie-José Bouscayrol with Regard Publishing: Richard Solstjarna Represented in the French Artdictionairy LA MER 2006
Marie-José Bouscayrol's "La Mer" assembles over 150 painters that evoke the theme of the sea with passion and talent. ISBN : 2-9515774-6-X Richard Solstjarna was aslo awarded "Diploma of Honor" and Prize "Oscar Della Cultura 2005" by Associaz...
Queensland Art Gallery: Belle-Ile: Monet, Russell and Matisse in Brittany
In the late nineteenth century these artists were all drawn to Belle-Île, off the coast of Brittany, France, by their desire to capture on canvas the island’s dramatic, storm-tossed coastline...
Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art: American Impressionists Abroad and at Home: Paintings from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The American impressionists were among the most thoroughly trained, widely traveled and cosmopolitan painters in the history of our nations art. Many artists ...
Louvre Museum: From Delacroix to Matisse: Drawings from the Algiers Museum of Art
Exhibition curators : Arlette Sérullaz, curator at the Department of Graphic Arts, at the Louvre, assigned to the Musée Delacroix Dalila Orfali, director of the Algiers Museum of Fine Arts The restoration of the works was supervised by Nathali...
Westin Grand Bohemian Art Gallery: Expressionist Landscapes: Cecil Herring and Jean Claude Roy
Herring state about herself - " 'Find your bliss,' the great Philosopher- Anthropologist Joseph Campbell advised. Campbell was right. I found my 'bliss' in 1956, 49 years ago. I have loved every minute I have spent creating art works and to this d...
Metropolis: Call for Aritsts: Cartasia , International Paper Festival - Biennale of Contemporary Art
Cartasia 2007, International Paper Festival, Biennale of Contemporary Art is composed by: International contest of sculpture in paper and cardboard, open air exhibit in the old part of Lucca of the works selected, called ìThe City of Paperî; pho...
Sprengel Museum: Cubisme - Cubism: An Artistic Watershed in Europe 1906-1926
Around then, the Moscow collector Ivan Morossov also bought Picassos. Villa Schschukin in the grand Snamenski Lane was open to the public from 1909, providing many Moscow artists, such as M. Larionov and N. Gont-scharova, David Buliyuk, Kasimir Ma...
Phoenix Art Museum: Masterpiece Replayed: Monet, Matisse and More
The 13 case-studies in the exhibition provide an unprecedented opportunity to compare different versions of masterpieces and to instigate a conversation about originality and mastery. This exhibition will be on view at only two locations in the c...
Seoul Arts Center: Van Gogh to Picasso: Impressionist and Modern Masterworks for the Cleveland Museum of Art
According to U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, Alexander Vershbow, “This exhibition is an excellent example of the increasing cooperation and linkages between the peoples of our two countries. It will enhance mutual understanding by incre...
Noorderlicht Photofestival: Noorderlicht Photofestival 2001 Opens Tomorrow
- Main exhibition 'Sense of Space' with work by photographers from The Netherlands, Germany, France, England, America, Russia and other countries ...
Chardon's Gallery, University of Puerto Rico: Variations of a Theme
...
Frick Collection: Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette
Through a selection of thirty-five of her paintings, the exhibition demonstrates Vallayer-Coster’s development as one of the foremost still-life artists of her generation. Accompanying the exhibition is the first catalogue in full color to presen...
KunstenFESTIVALdesArts: Performing and Visual Arts Come Together for a Month of Events
Kunsten ET des Arts. Take a look at the street signs. Two languages can be seen all over Brussels, our federal capital. As a truly international city we were duty-bound to bring together French and D...

Further Artwork and Information:

Daniel Chester French Online
Daniel Chester French: Sculpture In Situ
Daniel French - Artist Painting Prices, Art Appraisal, Artist Paintings [AskART.com]
Today in History: April 20
IHAS: Artist/Movement/Ideas
Daniel Chester French Stamp
Yahoo! Directory Sculptors > Daniel Chester French
Wikipedia: Daniel Chester French
Daniel Chester French
French, Daniel Chester

Search the Art History Database for artists, titles, media, year, and other indepth information: