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Birth
1839 (New Preston, Connecticut)
Death
1920 (Mount Vernon, New York)
Lived/Active
New York/Connecticut
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portrait bust sculpture, monuments
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George Bissell was born in New Preston, Connecticut, the son of a quarryman and marble-cutter. During the American Civil War he served as a private in the 23rd Connecticut Volunteers in the Department of the Gulf (1862-1863), and on being mustered out became acting assistant paymaster in the South Atlantic Squadron. At the close of the war he joined his father's marble business in Poughkeepsie, New York.
He studied the art of sculpture abroad in 1875-1876, and lived much in Paris during t (showing 500 of 2990 characters). |
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