biografía de Launt THOMPSON (1833-1894)

Lugar de nacimiento: Abbeyleix, County Queens, Ireland

Lugar de defunción: Middletown, NY

Direcciones: Albany, NY, 1847; NYC, 1857-82

Profesión: Sculptor

Estudios: E.D. Palmer, Albany 1848-57

Exposiciones: NAD, 1862-82; Brooklyn AA, 1862, 1866; PAFA Ann., 1878

Asociaciones: NA, 1862

Comentarios: Came to U.S. in 1847. He worked in Albany under Erastus Dow Palmer for nine years. In 1857, he moved to NYC where he became a successful sculptor, producing portraits and ideal figures. In 1867 he spent several months in Rome; he returned to Italy in 1875 for a six-year stay.

Fuentes: G&W; DAB; Taft, History of American Sculpture; Cowdrey, NAD; Falk, Exh. Record Series.