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| 1828 births | |
| 1895 deaths | |
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He was born at Wellstown (now Wells ), Hamilton County , New York . He first followed the trade of a Marble cutter with his father at Pittsfield, Massachusetts . In 1848 he opened a studio at St Louis, Missouri , and in 1855 was sent by his wife's cousin, politican Stephen A. Douglas , to Rome to study. Returning to America in 1857, he settled in Chicago , where he helped to establish an Academy Of Design and was for eight years its head. Among his principal works:
In 1860 he made a life Mask of Lincoln, of whom only one other was ever made (by Clark Mills in 1865). His son, Douglas Volk (b. 1856), figure and portrait painter, who studied under J. L. Gerome in Paris, became a member of the Society Of American Artists in 1880 and of the National Academy Of Design in 1899. REFERENCES |
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