DRAKE, drit'ke, Futfamion Joit.v.xx 11Fdx t1S05-521. A (lemon] sculptor. born at Pyrniont, June 23, Elk father was a turner, and the son also served an apprentice ship in eallinet•work. His talent in clay modeling attracted the attention of Dr. SAlund henke, a relative of Rauch, who in 1527 obtained for hint admission into the sculptor's atelier. Drake also studied in Italy, where he came under the intlueme of Thorwahlsen, but cyan his principal nnaster, anti his first work, were executed under Rau•h's direetions. The best of them is a group representing a lVarrior" I1`1331, erowned with the laurel of victory; a "Nladontia and Child," bought by the Empress of Russia; and a graceful statue of a "Female Vine-I)resser" (National .Nluseinn. Berlin I. Iii early works also include a of excellent portrait Of Schil ler, Rauch, the two Flumboldts, and other celeb rities. In lie minleled the colossal bronze statue of Justus :\liiser, a t:erman patriot. for Osnabriick, and in 1S44 he v01111)1 0...I the plaster statues of the eight of for I lit• Hall in lilt Royal Palace of Berlin. Among his hest work, is the marble of Frederiek William 111. in the Thiergarten. Ber lin; the frieze crimping the circular pedestal. IS feet in height. represents the enjoyment of nature, and is nitof the most graceful of Modern Noteworthy among his other works is the noble marble statue of Chris tian Hanel), in the %iistibille of the New 'Alin:emu, Berlin: iinother of the sculptor S•hinkel 115691, and a marble group in the Sehlossbriielie repre senting a "Warrior Crowned by Victory" (1550).
Perhaps the most important of all his monu mental works is the colossal bronze of ling \Villiani of Prussia (15117). for the iron of Cologne. At the Paris Exhibition (18071 this monument was adjudged the most remarkable work of modern sculpture, and litought to the sculptor the great gold medal of the Legion of llonor. His latest work, include the celossal bronze statute of Alexander von Hum boldt in Philadelphia and of Bismarck and Von :\loltke. Drake is IMP of the foremost repre sentatives t f the fIernian School of sculpture of the nineteenth century. His art is manly and hut not without a high zIppreciation of beauty ot form. It is not a reflection of the an tique. like that of Ca but more original and modern. In portrait work he render, the char acter of the subject in its 1114)%t attractive fea tures, hut without false idealization. lie was highly iegarded by contemporaries, having been piofessor of the .1eadenty of Berlin and member of the in NItinieli, Saint Petersburg, Anneals. lItone, and of the Institute of l'ranee. Ile died in Berlin. I (insult : llistory of Ncidill ore. cols ii. London. : Botta, l.n tschel um! Drake