John Harvard is a sculpture in bronze by Daniel Chester French in Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, honoring clergyman John Harvard (1607–1638), whose deathbed
bequest to the
"schoale or Colledge"
recently undertaken by the Massachusetts Bay Colony was so gratefully received that it was consequently ordered
"that the
Colledge
agreed upon formerly to
bee
built at
Cambridg shalbee
called Harvard
Colledge."
There being nothing to indicate what John Harvard had looked like, French used a Harvard student collaterally descended from an early Harvard president as inspiration.
"He gazes for a moment into the future, so dim, so uncertain, yet so full of promise, promise which has been more than realized."
Hendrik Goltzius' Clio
Portrait (artist unknown) of Edward Winslow
Original site west of Memorial Hall
Daniel Chester French was an American sculptor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is best known for his 1874 sculpture The Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts, and his 1920 monumental statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
French in 1902
America, one of the Four Continents at The Alexander Hamilton Custom House, Bowling Green, New York City
French in his studio with the model for Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell, c. 1889, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC
Chesterwood in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, French's summer home, studio, and gardens, now a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
