Frederick William Sievers

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Frederick William Sievers (1872-1966) was an American sculptor, born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He moved to Richmond, Virginia, as a young man and then he furthered his art studies by attending the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and the Academie Julian in Paris. In 1910 when he was commissioned to create the Virginia Monument at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, he opened a studio in Richmond.

There are four portrait statues by Sievers in the Virginia Capitol, of United States Presidents James Madison and Zachary Taylor and two others, of Patrick Henry and Sam Houston.

Following the success of the Virginia Monument at Gettysburg, Sievers sculpted a number of other statues commemorating the Civil War. These included the Confederate Monument in Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, New York, and others in Abingdon, Leesburg, Louisa, and Pulaski County, Virginia.

He further produced monuments to specific Confederate leaders, General Tilghman at Vicksburg, Mississippi and Stonewall Jackson and Matthew Fontaine Maury, both on Monument Avenue in Richmond.

Sievers is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia). There is a historical marker commemorating his workshop in the yard of a home on W. 43rd St, off Forest Hill Ave. in South Richmond.