THOMPSON, Launt, sculptor, born in Abbeyleix. Queen's County, Ireland, 8 February, 1833. At the age of fourteen he went to Albany, New York, and there entered the office of a professor of anatomy. While there he occupied his leisure hours with drawing, but later entered a medical college. When Erastus D. Palmer, the sculptor, offered to receive him as his pupil, he gladly availed himself of the opportunity, and abandoned medicine for art. He worked in Pahner's studio for nine years, producing several portrait-busts and ideal heads of some merit, and in 1858 removed to New York city. Here, having shown a remarkable talent for medallion portraits, he found ample employment. He became an associate of the Academy of design in 1859, and three years later his bust, "The Trapper," secured his election as an academician. In 1868-'9 he was in Rome, and in 1875 he went again to Italy, remaining until 1881, in which year he returned to New York. In 1874 lie was vice-president of the National academy. Among his works are "Elaine," a bust; " Morning Glory," a medallion; statues of Abraham Pierson, at Yale college (1874), represented in the accompanying illustration ; Napoleon I., at Milford, Pennsylvania; General John Sedgwick, at West Point (1869) ; Winfield Scott, at the Soldiers' home, Washington, D. C. ; Charles Morgan, in Clinton, Connecticut (about 1871); and Ambrose E. Burnside, an equestrian statue, at Providence, Rhode Island (1887) ; "The Color-Bearer," at Pittsfield, Massachusetts ; a medallion portrait of John A. Dix, made for the sanitary fair; and portrait-busts of William C. Bryant., in the Metropolitan museum, New York; James Gordon Bennett, the elder; Robert B. Minturn; Captain Charles H. Marshall ; Edwin Booth as " Hamlet" ; Stephen H. Tyng (1870); and Charles L. Elliott and Samuel F. B. Morse (1871). Yale conferred on him the honorary degree of M. A. in 1874.