Edward V Valentine Sculpture Studio August 3, 2008

Edward Virginius Valentine (1838-1930) sculpted the Robert E. Lee memorial in Lee Chapel at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. In Richmond, he's famous for the statue of Thomas Jefferson in the historic Jefferson Hotel. In a successful artistic career that spanned 50 years, Edward Valentine worked in clay, plaster, marble and bronze to produce portrait busts, ideal figures and monumental public sculpture.