Thomas R. Gould

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Thomas R. Gould (1818-81) was an American sculptor, born in Boston. He was at first a merchant and did not adopt sculpture as a profession until after the Civil War. He practised in Boston until 1868, when he established a studio in Florence, Italy. Although a man of fine culture and true personal worth, he was deficient in technical training and real sculptural feeling.

[edit] Works

He produced portrait busts of Emerson, John A. Andrew, and Junius Brutus Booth.

• "Christ" (a bust)
• "Satan" (a bust)
• "Kamehameha the Great" in Honolulu and in (National Statuary Hall Collection) (Washington, D. C.)
• "West Wind" (St. Louis Mercantile Library, St. Louis)
• "John Hancock" (Lexington town hall)
• "A Puritan" (Cambridge (Mass.) Common, completed by his son.

[edit] Publications

• Tuckerman, Book of the Artists (New York, 1867)

[edit] Gallery

The original Kamehameha statue, at Kapaʻau, North Kohala

The replica statue that stands in Statuary Hall in the US Capitol Building

• This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.