{{short description|American sculptor}} __NOTOC__ {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2021}} {{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Martin Milmore | honorific_suffix = | image = Martin Milmore (1844-1883).jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = <!--only use if different from name--> | birth_date = {{Birth date|1844|09|14}} | birth_place = Sligo, Ireland | death_date = {{Death date and age|1883|07|21|1844|09|14}} | death_place = Boston, Massachusetts | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{Coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline}} --> | education = Boston Latin School; Lowell Institute | alma_mater = | known_for = Sculpture | notable_works = {{Flatlist| * Soldiers and Sailors Monument * Statue of John Glover }} | style = | movement = Thomas Ball | spouse = | awards = <!-- {{awd|award|year|title|role|name}} (optional) --> | elected = | patrons = | memorials = ''Death and the Sculptor'' | website = <!-- {{URL|Example.com}} --> }}
'''Martin Milmore''' (1844–1883) was an American sculptor.
==Life and career== Martin Milmore was born in Sligo, Ireland on September 14, 1844.<ref name=Cyclopaedia>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OXBGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA291 |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |volume=VIII |publisher=James T. White & Company |page=291 |year=1924 |access-date=2021-01-21 |via=Google Books}}</ref> He immigrated to Boston at age seven, graduated from Boston Latin School in 1860, took art lessons at the Lowell Institute, and learned to carve in wood and stone from his older brother Joseph (1841–1886).<ref>Taft, Lorado, ''Modern Tendencies in Sculpture: The Scammon Lectures at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1917'', University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 1922 p. 252</ref>
He entered the studio of Thomas Ball of Charlestown in his early teens and stayed until the mid-1860s. His first sculptures seem to have been cabinet-size busts of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord) and Charles Sumner, both modeled from life around 1863. In the 1860s he worked from the Studio Building.<ref>Boston Directory. 1868</ref>
By his 20th birthday, Milmore received a commission for three giant figures ("Ceres", "Flora" and "Pomona") for the front of the Horticultural Hall in Boston; the restored versions are now on display at the Elm Bank Horticulture Center.
He subsequently designed the Roxbury Soldiers' Monument at Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (1867), the ''American Sphinx'' in Mount Auburn Cemetery (1872), the Statue of John Glover on Commonwealth Avenue (1875), the Soldiers and Sailors Monument for the Boston Common (1877), and a bust of Senator Charles Sumner, now displayed in the United States Senate.
Milmore died in Boston on July 21, 1883.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/53089827/martin-milmoreobit-july-21-1883globe/ |title=Martin Milmore, Sculptor |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=6 |date=1883-07-22 |access-date=2021-01-21 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Daniel Chester French created a memorial tribute entitled ''Death and the Sculptor'' for the grave of Milmore and his brother in Forest Hills Cemetery.<ref>Wilson, Susan, ''Garden of Memories: A Guide to Historic Forest Hills'', Forest Hills Educational Trust, 1998 p. 61–62,</ref>
Milmore's work is widely available to see in public parks, historic cemeteries, town squares, museums and libraries throughout New England and in Pennsylvania.<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.irishamerica.com/2024/09/boston-sculptor-martin-milmore-born-september-14-1844-in-county-sligo-ireland/ |last1=Quinlin |first1=Michael |title=Boston's Great Civil War Sculptor|magazine=Irish America Magazine |date=September 14, 2024 }}</ref>
==Gallery== <gallery widths="225" heights="200"> File:Horticultural Hall Tremont St., Boston, Mass, by Soule, John P.jpg|{{center|Horticultural Hall,<br>Tremont Street, Boston;<br>sculptural figures by Millmore (1864)}} File:Interior of Milmore's studio, showing design of soldier's monument for the city of Roxbury, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views crop.jpg|{{center|Milmore's studio, c.1867}} File:George Ticknor, by Martin Milmore, Boston Public Library.jpg|{{center|Bust of George Ticknor (1871),<br>McKim Building<br>Boston Public Library}} File:Mount Auburn Cemetery - Martin Milmore sphinx.jpg|{{center|''American Sphinx'' (1872)<br>Mount Auburn Cemetery,<br> Cambridge, Massachusetts}} File:Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views 10 crop.jpg|{{center|Soldiers and Sailors Monument (1877),<br>Boston Common}} File:Death and the sculptor.jpg|{{center|''Death and the Sculptor'' (1893),<br>memorial to Milmore<br>by Daniel Chester French}} File:Chester Rural M Milmore.jpg|{{center|Civil War Memorial (1873)<br>Chester Rural Cemetery<br>Chester, Pennsylvania}} File:John Glover Statue.jpg|General John Glover (1875) on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston </gallery>
==References== '''Notes''' {{Reflist}}
'''Bibliography''' *{{cite book|url=http://www.libraryireland.com/irishartists/martin-milmore.php|chapter=Milmore, Martin (b. 1844, d. 1883)|title= Dictionary of Irish Artists |year=1913|editor=Walter G. Strickland}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Martin Milmore}} * [https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/artifact/Sculpture_21_00017.htm United States Senate] * [http://www.yeodoug.com/resources/dc_french/milmore/dcfrench_milmore.html Daniel Chester French: The Milmore Memorial] * [http://www.irishheritagetrail.com/boston/loc_9.php]Boston Irish Heritage Trail
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