George Edwin Bissell

George Edwin Bissell (16 February 1839-August 30 1920) was an American sculptor.

Bissell was born New Preston, Connecticut, the son of a quarryman and marble-cutter. During the American Civil War he served as a private in the 23rd Connecticut Volunteers in the Department of the Gulf (1862-1863), and on being mustered out became acting assistant paymaster in the South Atlantic Squadron. At the close of the war he joined his father's marble business in Poughkeepsie, New York.

He studied the art of sculpture abroad in 1875-1876, and lived much in Paris during the years 1883-1896, with occasional visits to America. Among his more important works are the soldiers and sailors monument, and a statue of Colonel Chatfield at Waterbury, Connecticut; and statues of General Horatio Gates at Saratoga, New York; of Chancellor John Watts in Trinity Churchyard, New York City; of Colonel Abraham de Peyster in Bowling Green, New York City; of Abraham Lincoln at Edinburgh and Clermont, Indiana; of Burns and Highland Mary, in Ayr, Scotland; of Chancellor James Kent, in the Congressional library, Washington D.C.; and of President Arthur in Madison Square, New York City.

References

* Opitz, Glenn, B.,editor, "Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers", Apollo Books, Poughkeepsie, NY 1986
*1911