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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: September 5, 2015
Caption: Maximilian Godefroy
Additional Description: This 1815 portrait of Maximiian Godefroy by Rembrandt Peale hangs in the Maryland Historical Society Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.

“Baltimore's Committee of Vigilance and Safety selected French-trained neoclassical architect and former soldier Maximilian Godefroy as the designer for its Battle Monument. Godefroy, a former soldier who fought on the royalist side of the French Revolution, chose the monument's symbolic Classical elements to memorialize Baltimore's fallen heroes. While Godefroy personally oversaw much of the monument's construction, he returned to Europe in 1819 well before his masterpiece was completed in 1825.” — Maryland Historical Society
Submitted: September 30, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p331592
File Size: 1.012 Megabytes

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