Joseph Ernest Amédée Mezzara

Place: New York

Born: 1820

Death: 1901

Biography:

Joseph Ernest Amédée Mezzara was a Franco-American sculptor. He was born in New York in 1820 to Thomas François Gaspard Mezzara and Marie Angélique Foulon, both painters. He spent most of his youth in Paris, where he took lessons from the painters Jean-Pierre Granger and Ary Scheffer and the sculptor Pierre-Jean David d'Angers. He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1852 to 1875 and his works included a bust of Alfred de Musset in 1868. He died in the 6th arrondissement of Paris in 1901.