| Sculptor Blanche Nevin was born in 1838 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in Philadelphia, and with Joseph Bailly. Her sculpture of John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg may be seen in the United States Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. Muhlenberg, the Revolutionary War hero, is sculpted in a Neo-Classical style, standing in his general's uniform of the Continental Army. Donated to the U.S. government in 1889 by the State of Pennsylvania, it is par (showing 500 of 1917 characters). |
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