Born in Ireland, Launt Thompson came to the United States with his mother in 1847 and settled in Albany, NY, where he became the assistant of sculptor Erastus Dow Palmer. He moved to New York City in 1857 and established his own studio on 10th St, becoming a full member of the National Academy of Design in 1862.
In 1869, Thompson married Maria Louisa Potter, the only daughter of Alonzo Potter, the third bishop of Pennsylvania, Episcopal Church of the United States. They had three children, Lancelot, Mariette Benedict, and Florence Howard.
Thompson's early works include a popular relief of the Charles Dickens' character, "Little Nell,"; "Rocky Mountain Trapper," a marble portrait of James Capon Adams, better known as “Grizzly Adams”; a relief portrait of author Candace Wheeler now at the New York Historical Society; a bust of William Cullen Bryant held at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Thompson's best known works include a large statue of Napoleon (Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC); busts of fellow artists Charles Loring Elliot, Sanford R Gifford, and Samuel F. B. Morse (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); statues of General Winfield Scott (United States Soldiers Home, Washington DC), Admiral Samuel Francis DuPont (originally placed at the center of Dupont Circle, Washington, DC and now in Rockford Park, Wilmington, DE); Abraham Pierson (Old Campus, Chapel Street and College Street, New Haven, CT) and Admiral Ambrose Burnside (Burnside Park, Providence, RI).
Alcoholism was his undoing and required him to be institutionalized in his later years. Thompson died at the State Mental Asylum at Middletown, New York in 1894.
In 1869, Thompson married Maria Louisa Potter, the only daughter of Alonzo Potter, the third bishop of Pennsylvania, Episcopal Church of the United States. They had three children, Lancelot, Mariette Benedict, and Florence Howard.
Thompson's early works include a popular relief of the Charles Dickens' character, "Little Nell,"; "Rocky Mountain Trapper," a marble portrait of James Capon Adams, better known as “Grizzly Adams”; a relief portrait of author Candace Wheeler now at the New York Historical Society; a bust of William Cullen Bryant held at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Thompson's best known works include a large statue of Napoleon (Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC); busts of fellow artists Charles Loring Elliot, Sanford R Gifford, and Samuel F. B. Morse (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); statues of General Winfield Scott (United States Soldiers Home, Washington DC), Admiral Samuel Francis DuPont (originally placed at the center of Dupont Circle, Washington, DC and now in Rockford Park, Wilmington, DE); Abraham Pierson (Old Campus, Chapel Street and College Street, New Haven, CT) and Admiral Ambrose Burnside (Burnside Park, Providence, RI).
Alcoholism was his undoing and required him to be institutionalized in his later years. Thompson died at the State Mental Asylum at Middletown, New York in 1894.
Born in Ireland, Launt Thompson came to the United States with his mother in 1847 and settled in Albany, NY, where he became the assistant of sculptor Erastus Dow Palmer. He moved to New York City in 1857 and established his own studio on 10th St, becoming a full member of the National Academy of Design in 1862.
In 1869, Thompson married Maria Louisa Potter, the only daughter of Alonzo Potter, the third bishop of Pennsylvania, Episcopal Church of the United States. They had three children, Lancelot, Mariette Benedict, and Florence Howard.
Thompson's early works include a popular relief of the Charles Dickens' character, "Little Nell,"; "Rocky Mountain Trapper," a marble portrait of James Capon Adams, better known as “Grizzly Adams”; a relief portrait of author Candace Wheeler now at the New York Historical Society; a bust of William Cullen Bryant held at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Thompson's best known works include a large statue of Napoleon (Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC); busts of fellow artists Charles Loring Elliot, Sanford R Gifford, and Samuel F. B. Morse (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); statues of General Winfield Scott (United States Soldiers Home, Washington DC), Admiral Samuel Francis DuPont (originally placed at the center of Dupont Circle, Washington, DC and now in Rockford Park, Wilmington, DE); Abraham Pierson (Old Campus, Chapel Street and College Street, New Haven, CT) and Admiral Ambrose Burnside (Burnside Park, Providence, RI).
Alcoholism was his undoing and required him to be institutionalized in his later years. Thompson died at the State Mental Asylum at Middletown, New York in 1894.
In 1869, Thompson married Maria Louisa Potter, the only daughter of Alonzo Potter, the third bishop of Pennsylvania, Episcopal Church of the United States. They had three children, Lancelot, Mariette Benedict, and Florence Howard.
Thompson's early works include a popular relief of the Charles Dickens' character, "Little Nell,"; "Rocky Mountain Trapper," a marble portrait of James Capon Adams, better known as “Grizzly Adams”; a relief portrait of author Candace Wheeler now at the New York Historical Society; a bust of William Cullen Bryant held at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Thompson's best known works include a large statue of Napoleon (Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC); busts of fellow artists Charles Loring Elliot, Sanford R Gifford, and Samuel F. B. Morse (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); statues of General Winfield Scott (United States Soldiers Home, Washington DC), Admiral Samuel Francis DuPont (originally placed at the center of Dupont Circle, Washington, DC and now in Rockford Park, Wilmington, DE); Abraham Pierson (Old Campus, Chapel Street and College Street, New Haven, CT) and Admiral Ambrose Burnside (Burnside Park, Providence, RI).
Alcoholism was his undoing and required him to be institutionalized in his later years. Thompson died at the State Mental Asylum at Middletown, New York in 1894.
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