Codice albumGBB-F-001272

Codice inventarioGBB-F-001272-0000

1865 ca, USA : The american sculptor Larkin Goldsmith MEAD (1835 1910), working in a neoclassical style. Photo by Mathew B. Brady (1822 ca 1896). He was born at Chesterfield, New Hampshire, and was a pupil (1853-1855) of Henry Kirke Brown. During the early part of the American Civil War he was at the front for six months, with the Army of the Potomac, as an artist for Harper's Weekly; and in 1862-1865 he was in Italy, being for part of the time attached to the United States consulate at Venice, while William Dean Howells, his brother-in-law, was consul. He returned to America in 1865, but subsequently went back to Italy and lived at Florence where he died and was buried in the Cimitero Agli Allori, evangelican cementery, Firenze. One of his principal works was the Lincoln Tomb, a sepulchral monument to President Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois.

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