Cyrus Cobb

{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Cyrus Cobb | image = Cyrus Cobb (1834–1903).png | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1834|08|06}} | birth_place = Malden, Massachusetts | death_date = {{Death date and age|1903|01|29|1834|08|06}} | death_place = Allston, Massachusetts | resting_place = | occupation = Lawyer, sculptor, poet, musician | employer = | spouse = Emma Lillie | children = 5 | relatives = Darius Cobb (brother) | father = Sylvanus Cobb | mother = Eunice Hale Waite Cobb | awards = | education = | party = | signature = Signature of Cyrus Cobb (1834–1903).png }} '''Cyrus Cobb''' (August 6, 1834 - January 29, 1903) was an American lawyer, sculptor, poet and musician.

==Early years and education== Cyrus Cobb, twin brother of Darius Cobb, the painter, was the son of Rev. Sylvanus Cobb, Universalist clergyman, and Eunice Hale Waite Cobb, the writer. He was born in Malden, Massachusetts, August 6, 1834.<ref name=Cyclopaedia>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QsdKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA44 |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |volume=IV |publisher=James T. White & Company |pages=44–45 |year=1893 |access-date=2020-12-02 |via=Google Books}}</ref> He was educated at the public schools, one of which was the Lyman School in East Boston, Massachusetts. He studied art in America, declining to go to Europe for the purpose lest he should thus lose sympathy with American ideals. He studied law in Boston University.{{sfn|Davis|1895|p=486}}{{sfn|Werner Company|1905|p=216}}

==Career== Cobb served in the Union Army in the American Civil War, and afterward wrote a book entitled, ''The Veteran of the Grand Army'', in vindication of the Grand Army of the Republic, of which he was a devoted member.{{sfn|Werner Company|1905|p=216}}

Cobb was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June 1873, and practiced law for six years.{{sfn|Werner Company|1905|p=216}}

In 1879, he devoted himself to sculpture, and produced a number of important works, both portrait busts and monumental statuary. Among them were a heroic statue of Abbott Lawrence and a bust of Theodore Parker.{{sfn|Werner Company|1905|p=216}} His colossal head of ''The Celtic Bard'', his bas relief of ''Prospero and Miranda'', and his bust of General Butler, placed him in the front ranks of his profession. His design for the soldier's monument (1869) in Cambridge, Massachusetts was selected from 40 or more submitted to N. J. Bradlee, the noted architect, as incomparably the best.{{sfn|Davis|1895|p=486}} Cobb also painted several pictures.{{sfn|Werner Company|1905|p=216}} His best-known painting is ''Warren at the Old South'', painted in 1880, though his portraits of Dr. A. P. Peabody and John Appreton were esteemed.{{sfn|Werner Company|1905|p=216}}

He was an accomplished musician and was frequently heard at concerts. He also wrote a series of sonnets on the Masters of Art, which were published.{{sfn|Werner Company|1905|p=216}}

==Personal life== He married Emma Lillie, while his twin brother, Darius, married her sister, Laura M. Lillie.{{sfn|Davis|1895|p=486}} He and Emma had five children. She died {{Circa|1895}}.<ref name=Noted>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64475128/cyrus-cobb-noted-boston-sculptor/ |title=Cyrus Cobb, Noted Boston Sculptor Passes Away |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=14 |date=1903-01-30 |access-date=2020-12-02 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

Cobb died at Allston, Massachusetts, on January 29, 1903.{{sfn|Werner Company|1905|p=216}}<ref name=Noted/>

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===Bibliography=== *{{Source-attribution| {{cite book|last=Davis|first=William Thomas|title=Bench and Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b5osAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA486|edition=Public domain|year=1895|publisher=Boston History Company}} }} *{{Source-attribution| {{cite book|author=Werner Company|title=The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature, Science, History, Geography, Commerce, Biography, Discovery and Invention|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gg0EAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA216|edition=Public domain|year=1905|publisher=Werner Company}} }}

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