Crawford, THOMAS, sculptor, born in New York city in 1814, in 1834 went abroad for his studies, and settled in Rome, where he at first worked under the guidance of Thorwaldsen. Many of his earlier groups have found a place in Boston collections; his later works include the fine group known as the Washington monument, in the capitol park at Richmond, and the bronze figure of Liberty, surmounting the dome of the capitol at Washington. Stricken with blindness in 1856, Crawford died in London, 10th October 1857.
FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD, novelist, son of the foregoing, was born in Tuscany, August 2, 1854. He had his education at Concord, New Hampshire; Trinity College, Cambridge; Karlsruhe, and Heidelberg. At Rome he devoted himself to the study of Sanskrit, and during 1879-80 was engaged in press work at Allahabad, where he was admitted to the Catholic Church. He was selected by the government committee to write the national ode at the centennial of the American Constitution, September 17, 1887. His first novel, Mr Isaacs (1882), was a book of striking and quite unusual merit, securing a new romantic element in certain of the aspects and contrasts of modern oriental life. Among its successors have been Dr Claudius, and To Leeward (1883); A Roman Singer, and An American Politician (1884); Zoroaster (1885); The Story of a Lonely Parish, and Saracinesca (1886); Marzio's Crucifix, and Paul Patoff (1887); With the Immortals (1888); Sant' Ilario (1889); A Cigarette Maker's Romance, Khaled, and The Witch of Prague (1891); Don Orsino (1892); Pietro Ghisleri, Marion Darche, and The Children of the King (1893); Katherine Lauderdale, Love in Idleness (1894); The Ralstons (1895); Taquisara (1896); and Corleone (1897). Constantinople (1898) was a description of the city.