Richard Henry Park
Richard Henry Park (1832–1902), also known as Richard Hamilton Park, was an American sculptor.
Park was born in New York City and active in New York and Florence, Italy. Today he is best known for his Actor's Monument to Edgar Allan Poe in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and the Drake Fountain in Chicago. Lee Lawrie was his pupil.
He is reported to have become engaged to the daughter of Milwaukee millionaire John Plankinton's only daughter, Elizabeth, for whom her father built the Elizabeth Plankinton House; but Park abandoned his fiancé for a dancer from Minneapolis[1] and she is said never to have set foot in the mansion again.[2]
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References
- ^ "Elizabeth Plankinton House in Milwaukee, Wisconsin biography". 2016. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
She was to have been married to Richard Hamilton Park, the British sculptor of the above (the Washington Monument (Milwaukee)), but was deserted in favor of a dancer from Minneapolis.
- ^ "Wisconsin Avenue (Grand Avenue), E.A. Plankinton House". Retrieved January 10, 2017.
- AskArt description
- ArtNet entry
- The Dedication Exercises of the Actors' Monument to Edgar Allan Poe Sculptured by Richard Henry Park and Unveiled in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-York City, Monday, May 4, 1885, by N.Y. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Richard Henry Park, published by Theo. L. De Vinne & co. printers, 1885.
- Edgar Allan Poe monument
- Drake Fountain, City of Chicago
- Forbes magazine gossip about Park
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