The Independent Man atop the Rhode Island State House

Statue of Alexander Hamilton at Hamilton College, New York

George Thomas Brewster (1862–1943) was an American sculptor and architectural sculptor, known for his portraits and war memorials. Brewster also taught modeling at

Cooper Union The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (Cooper Union) is a private college at Cooper Square in New York City. Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859 after learning about the government-supported École Polytechnique in ...

beginning 1900;

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of New York beginning 1886; and

Rhode Island School of Design The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD , pronounced "Riz-D") is a private art and design school in Providence, Rhode Island. The school was founded as a coeducational institution in 1877 by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf, who sought to increase the ...

, between 1893 and 1894.

Life and education

Brewster was born on February 24, 1862, in Kingston. He studied first at the Massachusetts State Normal Art School in Boston, and then for three years at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in

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. His teachers there included

Augustin Dumont Augustin-Alexandre Dumont, known as Auguste Dumont (4 August 1801, in Paris – 28 January 1884, in Paris) was a French sculptor. Biography He was one of a long line of famous sculptors, the great-grandson of Pierre Dumont, son of Jacques-Edme ...

and

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Selected works

*''Victory'' (finial figure), architectural sculpture, Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1897-1902. *''Stephen Decatur'', Dewey Triumphal Arch, New York City, 1899 (destroyed). *''Independent Man'' (finial figure), atop

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, Providence, Rhode Island, 1899-1900. *''Protection of the Flag'', Village Green,

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, 1902. *Portrait medallions on exterior of

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, Saint Louis, Missouri, 1904. *Bas-relief portrait of ''Augustus Saint-Gaudens'', National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1904. *''Greek Drama'' and ''Greek State'', statues on exterior of

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, Brooklyn, New York City, 1907-09. *''Equestrian statue of William Penn Hussey'', New England Home for the Deaf,

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, 1913. *''Patrick Walsh'', Barrett Plaza,

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, 1913. *''Alexander Hamilton - 1793'',

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, Clinton, New York, 1918. *''Soldiers and Sailors Monument'',

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, dedicated in 1920. *Thomas Redfield Proctor Monument, Roscoe Cankling Park,

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, 1921. *Portrait bust of ''Robert E. Lee'',

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, Bronx, New York City, 1923.

Works in the Vicksburg National Military Park

*Lieut. Colonel S. H. Griffin (1911) *Brig. General John W. Whitfield (1913) *Brig. Gen. Elias S. Dennis (1915) *Brig. Gen. States Rights Gist (1915) *Brig. Gen.

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(1915) *Brig. Gen.

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(1915) *Major General

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(1915) one of the monuments vandalized in 2003 *Brig. General

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(1915) *Colonel Eugene Erwin (1916) *Brig. Gen.

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(1916) *Lt. Col. Melancthon Smith (1916) *Captain Patrick H. White (1917) *Major Alexander Yates (1917) *Major Joseph W. Anderson (1919) *Colonel Skidmore Harris (1919) *Colonel Randal MacGavock (1919) *Lieut. Colonel Madison Rogers (1919) *Major General Cadwallader Washburn (1919) *Major Robert B. Campbell (1920) *Captain Toby Hart (1921), one of the monuments vandalized in 2003 *Lieut. Colonel L. L. McLaurin (1921) *Major Frederick N. Ogden (1921) *Governor

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(1926)

Gallery

File:Soldiers Sailors Mon IN 1898.jpg, Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1898. File:Protection of the Flag Monument Nov 09.jpg, ''Protection of the Flag'' (1902),

. File:StLouisArtMuseumMO.jpg,

(1904), Saint Louis, Missouri. File:U.S. Post Office and Court House, Augusta (Richmond County, Georgia).jpg, ''Patrick Walsh'' (1913), Barrett Plaza,

Relief portraits at
Vicksburg National Military Park Vicksburg National Military Park preserves the site of the American Civil War Battle of Vicksburg, waged from March 29 to July 4, 1863. The park, located in Vicksburg, Mississippi (flanking the Mississippi River), also commemorates the greater ...

File:20-13-076-vicksburg.jpg, Col. Eugene Erwin (1916) File:22-26-083-griffin.jpg, Lt. Col. Sidney H. Griffin (1919) File:22-26-149-rogers.jpg, Lt. Col. Madison Rogers (1919) File:20-13-067-vicksburg.jpg, Lt. Col. Melancthon Smith (1916)

References

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