Bailly, Joseph A
sculptor, was born in 1825 in Paris, France. He began his career as a woodcarver and later he applied himself to marble sculpture and became a professor in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He has produced a statue of Washington, which was placed in front of the Philadelphia statehouse in 1869; a colossal statue of Witherspoon; the companion groups called The First Prayer and Paradise Lost; portrait busts of Gen. Grant and Gen. Meade; an equestrian statue of President Blanco of Venezuela; and Spring.