Antonin Mercie

Antonin Mercie

sculptor

BIRTHDAY October 30, 1845
BIRTH SIGN Scorpio
BIRTHPLACE France
AGE ? years old
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ABOUT ANTONIN MERCIE

French sculptor and painter known for his monuments of Robert E. Lee, Marquis de Lafayette, and Francis Scott Key .

He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, under Alexandre Falguiere and François Jouffroy.

He won the Grand Prix de Rome at the age of 23.

His parents raised him in Toulouse.

He made a bronze statue of Robert E. Lee which is in Richmond, Virginia.