Saint-Gaudens, Augustus

Saint-Gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907), American sculptor, born in Dublin and brought to America in his infancy. He grew up in New York. From 1867 to 1875 he studied in Paris and in Rome, and, upon his return to the United States in 1875, he established a studio in New York, executing figures and reliefs, principally in bronze. In 1876 he was commissioned to produce his first major public monument, the statue of the American Admiral David Glasgow Farragut in Madison Square, New York. Subsequently, Saint-Gaudens executed a large number of public and private commissions, notably the portrait figure (1887) of Abraham Lincoln in Chicago; the Adams Memorial (1886-1891) in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; and the famous equestrian statue (1903) of the American General William Tecumseh Sherman in Central Park, New York. In 1965 his New Hampshire home and studio became the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site.