Show A bowmall DOW MAll NEW YORK dec 8 special launt thompson N A the well known sculptor was arrested last in his studio at fifth avenue while fering from an attack of delirium tre mens anil was sentenced today to day to thirty dava on blackwells island in default of bail it took two po linemen to arrest on tuesday night when ho was arraigned in jeffersen market court to day justice gorman looked at him and aard your face and your name are both familiar you are not the tor 1 I am said thompson too bad too bad said the justice and then john who had caused thompsons Thomp sons arrest told of the trouble he had had with thompson he aid ha believed the sculptor ft as in sane thompson said that snedicor aid not tell the truth he denied that h had been drunk the justice be lieveld unless the bail is tomorrow to morrow thompson will be ent to the island it arill be th beconi time he has been there last year he got into a row with a cabman and was arrested he gave the nime of johnston at the station and was bont to the acland under mat nam is a relative of bishop potter ha has a brother who ia a minister ia valparaiso he came to to america when he was 14 years old and went to albany abera he entered the office of a professor of anatomy abil there he occupied hit leisure hours in drawing but later ho entered a medical college when erastus D palmer the offered to receive him ai his pupil he gladly availed himself of tha opportunity and abandoned medicine for art he worked in pal mers eludia for nine yeara producing several portrait busts and ideal heads of merit and in 1859 came to new york city hero having shows a talent for medallion portraits he found ample employment he became an acio ciata of the Ac adny of design in 1859 and three years later his bust th trapper his election as an academician in 1868 and he was in borne and in 1875 he went asam to italy remaining until in which year he returned to new york in 1374 ho was vice of the national academy Aca domy amone his best works are biame EI ame abbat morning glory a medallion statue of abraham pierson of yale college 1974 napoleon L at milford pa gen john sedgwick at west point anfield scott at the soldiers home washing ton D C charles morgan in clinton coan about 1881 and ambrose E burnside an equestrian statue at providence 1887 the color bearer at pittsfield alces a lion pro trait of john A dix made lor the sanitary fair and protract pro trait of wm C bry ani in the metropolitan museum kew yerk james gordon B anett the elder capt charles H machall Ma edwin booth as hamlet stephen H tang 1870 and shirlea Jh irlea L eiliott and samuel FB morse 1871 yale college conferred on him alie honorary degree of master of arts in 1 his best known work is the equestrian statue ef gen burnside for chich he received it is said he has not done any work at all since he finish ed that he is married and has three children his wife and children have i lived in florence italy for nearly ten the children freeing are eing educated here MA was until a year or so agoa member of century lotus and other clubs |