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Thompson (LAUNT an American sculptor)

LAUNT, an American sculptor; born in Abbeyleix, Ireland, Feb. 8, 1833; went to Albany, N. Y., in 1847, and there entered the office of a professor of anatomy. Later he studied sculpture under Erastus D. Palmer, produced several portrait busts and ideal heads of merit, and in 1850 removed to New York City, where he became an associate of the Academy of Design in 1859; an academician in 1862; and vicepresident in 1874. After traveling in Italy for several years he returned to New York and thereafter devoted himself to his art work. His productions include a a bust entitled "Elaine"; "Morning ham Pierson at New Haven, Conn., and portrait busts of William C. Bryant in the Metropolitan Museum, New York Morse, etc. He died in 1894.

Morse, etc. He died in 1894.