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Boeswillwald was apprenticed to a mason and studied architecture in the atelier of Labrouste. In 1845 he was appointed inspector of the works of restoration of the cathedral of Paris under Viollet-le-Duc and Lassus. He assisted Duban and Lassus in the restoration of the Sainte Chapelle, Paris. In 1849 he was appointed diocesan architect of Luçon, Soissons, Bayonne, Orléans, and later of Chartres, and restored many of the cathedrals and churches of France. He organized the service of the Monuments Historiques in Algeria and Tunisia.
Dance, George (II), R. A. A son of George Dance (I). He went to Italy and in 1763 won a gold medal at the Academy of Fine Arts at Parma. In 1764 he was admitted to the Academy of S. Luke at Rome. Returning to England he succeeded his father as clerk of the city works in 1767. Between 1770 and 1778 Dance erected the famous Newgate Prison (London).
Houdon, Jean Antoine Houdon was a pupil, first of Michel Slodtz, and afterward of Pigalle at the École des Beaux Arts. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1761 at the age of twenty. During his stay in Rome he made the famous statue of S. Bruno in the portico of the church of S. Maria degli Angeli. Houdon's best work is in portraiture. Of his portrait statues, perhaps the most important is the superb Voltaire of the Théâtre-français, Paris. Houdon was his own bronze founder, and was without a rival in that art. In 1785 he visited America with Franklin [bust by Houdon], and made the statue of Washington at the capitol in Richmond, Virginia. |
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