Francis Edwin Elwell (also cited as Frank Edwin Elwell) (June 15, 1858, Concord, Massachusetts – January 23, 1922, Darien, Connecticut) was an American sculptor, teacher and author.
He lectured on art at Harvard University, and taught modeling at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York. He served as Curator of Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until he was ousted in 1905, and wrote one of the first, though unpublished, histories of American sculpture.
Elwell customary an to the fore reputation as a sculptor of portrait busts, but next became known for major works, funereal and military monuments, and architectural sculptures. His most well-known work is probably Dickens and Little Nell (1890).
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