During the last two years of the American Civil War, he moved to Washington, D.C., and modeled 24 portrait medallions of President Abraham Lincoln, his Cabinet, and generals and admirals.[4] The Union League of Philadelphia purchased most of the medallions. In 1867 Simmons received an honorary A.M. from Bates College and from Colby.
Simmons went to live in Rome in 1868, but returned several times. Among his portrait busts are those of David D. Porter, James G. Blaine, Francis Wayland, and Ulysses S. Grant (1886). He is said to have made a female statue of The Wanderer, meant to depict a Jewess wandering in the desert.[5] He died in Rome, aged 74, and is buried in the Protestant Cemetery.[6]
Peace Monument (marble, 1877), United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.
Peace Monument (formerly Naval Monument) (marble, 1877), United States Capitol Grounds, Washington, D.C., Edward Clark, architect.[14] The figures atop the monument are titled "Grief and History."
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^"American Neoclassical Sculpture". Portland Art Museum. Archived from the original on March 10, 2011. Retrieved February 23, 2011.
^"Charles W. Fairbanks". United States Senate. Archived from the original on February 22, 2011. Retrieved February 23, 2011.
^Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti., by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 480.
^De Gubernatis, 1905.
^"Databases of Burials in the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome". Protestant Cemetery, Rome. Archived from the original on February 7, 2013. Retrieved February 10, 2013.
^Lillian Whiting, "Franklin Simmons", The Twentieth Century Magazine, Volume 1 (Google eBook) (Twentieth Century Company, 1910), pg. 202
^"Penelope". FRAME Museums. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. Retrieved February 23, 2011.
^"Ellen Crane Memorial Sculpture Gallery". Berkshire Museum. Archived from the original on February 11, 2006. Retrieved January 27, 2006.
^"Jochebed (Mother of Moses) | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston". Mfa.org. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
^"Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art". Metmuseum.org. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
^"Portrait Bust of Robert Treat Paine | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston". Mfa.org. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
^Gobetz, Wally (August 10, 2008). "Pennsylvania - Valley Forge: Washington Memorial Chapel - …". Flickr. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
^"The Peace Monument | Architect of the Capitol | United States Capitol". Aoc.gov. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
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