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Alexander Doyle

Alexander Doyle

American sculptor


Alexander Doyle (1857–1922) was an American sculptor.

Doyle's "Confederate Soldier" (1885); in background Doyle's equestrian statue of General Albert Sidney Johnston (1877), Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans.

Doyle was born in Steubenville, Ohio, and spent his youth in Louisville (Kentucky) and St. Louis (Missouri) before going to Italy to study sculpture in Bergamo, Rome, and Florence, studying with Giovanni Duprè, Carlo Nicoli and Fernando Pelliccia.[1]

After returning to the United States he settled in New York City and became one of the most prominent sculptors of the era. There are three statues by Doyle in National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C.: Thomas Hart Benton (Thomas Hart Benton), Francis Preston Blair, Jr. (Francis Preston Blair Jr.) and John E. Kenna (John E. Kenna).

Doyle became a sculptor of marble and bronze monuments of historical figures including Civil War participants and other prominent persons. He studied in Italy at the National Academies at Carrara, Rome, and Florence and was a member of the Royal Raphael Academy. His work can be found throughout the United States including in Washington, D.C., Missouri, Alabama, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Georgia, and Mississippi.

In New Orleans, where he was active in 1882 and 1883, he created a trio of important sculptures of Confederate States Army generals. These are: the city's iconic figure of General Robert E. Lee at Lee Circle, dedicated in 1884 and removed by Mayor Mitch Landrieu on May 19, 2017; the massive bronze General Beauregard Equestrian Statue at the entrance to City Park (1915), removed on May 16 of 2017 and placed in a city junk yard; and the bronze statue of General Albert Sydney Johnston atop the Army of the Tennessee cenotaph in Metairie Cemetery (1887). According to Leonard V. Huber, author of New Orleans Architecture: The Cemeteries, Doyle's finest work is "Calling the Roll" (1885), a marble sculpture of an unknown Confederate soldier. "Calling the Roll" stands before the General Johnston bronze monument in Metairie Cemetery.

A Doyle marble statue of Margaret Haughery, a New Orleans woman who devoted her life to the poor, was erected in 1889, the first monument to honor a female philanthropist in the United States.[citation needed]

The "Alexander Doyle Papers, 1852-1937" are located in the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art in Washington D.C.[2]

Partial list of works

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References

  1. Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986, p.236
  2. "Alexander Doyle papers, 1852-1937". www.aaa.si.edu.
  3. Save Outdoor Sculptures! (1993). "The Washington Artillery (sculpture)". SOS!. Smithsonian. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  4. Save Outdoor Sculptures! (1994). "Francis Scott Key Grave and Monument (sculpture)". SOS!. Smithsonian. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  5. Hutton, Orlando (1890). Life of the Right Reverend William Pinkney, D.D., LL.D., Fifth Bishop of Maryland. Washington, D.C.: Gibson Bros. pp. 350–352. Life of the Right Reverend William Pinkney.
  6. Campanella, Marina and Richard (1999). New Orleans Then and Now. Gernta, LA: Pelican Publishing. pp. 323–327.
  7. Save Outdoor Sculptures! (1993). "Margaret Gaffney Haughery (sculpture)". SOS!. Smithsonian. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  8. Save Outdoor Sculptures! (1993). "Robert E. Lee (sculpture)". SOS!. Smithsonian. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  9. Doyle, Joseph Beatty (1911). In Memoriam, Edwin McMasters Stanton: His Life and Work. Steubenville, OH: Herald Printing Co. pp. 388. In Memoriam, Edwin McMasters Stanton: His Life and Work.
  10. Save Outdoor Sculptures!. "Benjamin Harvey Hill (sculpture)". SOS!. Smithsonian. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  11. Save Outdoor Sculptures!. "Benjamin Harvey Hill (sculpture)". SOS!. Smithsonian. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  12. Wilson, Samuel (2002) [1974]. New Orleans Architecture. Vol. III: The Cemeteries. Gernta, LA: Pelican Publishing. p. 54. ISBN 9781455609345.
  13. Save Outdoor Sculptures! (1993). "Louisiana Confederate Soldier (sculpture)". SOS!. Smithsonian. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  14. Save Outdoor Sculptures! (1992). "Saratoga Battle Monument: General Philip Schuyler (sculpture)". SOS!. Smithsonian. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  15. Save Outdoor Sculptures! (1993). "General James B. Steedman (sculpture)". SOS!. Smithsonian. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  16. Toledo-Lucas Public Library Images in Time. "Images in Time". Archived from the original on 5 July 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
  17. Save Outdoor Sculptures! (1993). "Army of Tennessee - Louisiana Division (sculpture)". SOS!. Smithsonian. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  18. Save Outdoor Sculptures! (1993). "Volunteer Firemen's Monument (sculpture)". SOS!. Smithsonian. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  19. Save Outdoor Sculptures! (1888). "Jasper Monument (sculpture)". SOS!. Smithsonian. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  20. Save Outdoor Sculptures! (1994). "National Monument to the Forefathers (sculpture)". SOS!. Smithsonian. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  21. Save Outdoor Sculptures!. "James A. Garfield Monument: Garfield (sculpture)". SOS!. Smithsonian. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  22. Save Outdoor Sculptures!. "Greeley Monument (sculpture)". SOS!. Smithsonian. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  23. Save Outdoor Sculptures! (1995). "(Bison Fountain) (sculpture)". SOS!. Smithsonian. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  24. Save Outdoor Sculptures! (1992). "Henry W. Grady (sculpture)". SOS!. Smithsonian. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  25. Save Outdoor Sculptures!. "Thomas H. Benton (sculpture)". SOS!. Smithsonian. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  26. Save Outdoor Sculptures!. "Francis P. Blair, Jr. (sculpture)". SOS!. Smithsonian. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  27. Save Outdoor Sculptures!. "John E. Kenna (sculpture)". SOS!. Smithsonian. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  28. Save Outdoor Sculptures! (1992). "The Confederate Monument (sculpture)". SOS!. Smithsonian. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  29. Save Outdoor Sculptures! (1996). "(Iowa State Capitol Relief) (sculpture)". SOS!. Smithsonian. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  30. Save Outdoor Sculptures! (1993). "Bust of Richard W. Thompson (sculpture)". SOS!. Smithsonian. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
  31. Save Outdoor Sculptures! (1993). "General G. T. Beauregard (sculpture)". SOS!. Smithsonian. Retrieved 5 December 2010.

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