Frederick J. Moynihan was an American sculptor, born on the Isle of Guernsey in 1843. He died in his New York City studio on January 9, 1910.
Moynihan studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in London before immigrating to the United States. He is best remembered for creating monuments commemorating the American Civil War.
Public monuments
HMS Eurydice, Shanklin Cemetery, Shanklin, Isle of Wight 1880 Pennsylvania's Ninth "Lochiel" Veteran Cavalry Monument, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia 1894 Company F, 1st US (Vermont) Sharpshooters Monument - Gettysburg, PA 1889 Vermont Sharpshooters, Companies E & H 2nd Regiment United States Sharpshooters - Gettysburg, PA 1889 13th Vermont Infantry Monument Lieutenant Stephen F. Brown- Gettysburg, PA 1899 Georgia State Monument. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia 1899 Griffin Alexander Stedman Monument, Barry Square, Hartford, Connecticut, 1900 General Gustavus Sniper, equestrian, Syracuse, New York, 1905 J.E.B. Stuart, equestrian, Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, 1907
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References
DuPriest, Jr., James E. and Douglas O. Tice, Jr. Monument & Boulevard: Richmond's Grand Avenues, Richmond Discoveries, Richmond, Virginia, 1996 Falk, Peter Hastings, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art, Sound View Press, Madison Connecticut, 1985 Hardin, Evemarie, Syracuse Landmarks: An AIA Guide to Downtown and Historic Neighborhoods, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, New York, 1993 Kerr, Jack, Monuments and Markers of the 29 States Engaged at Chickamauga and Chattanooga, Collegedale, TN: The College Press, n.d. Mackay, James, The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze, Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1977 Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986