Lot Flannery

Lot Flannery (1836–December 19, 1922) was an Irish-American sculptor from Washington, D.C., best known for his work in 1868 on the Abraham Lincoln statue located outside the District of Columbia City Hall and the nation's oldest extant memorial to the assassinated president.

Biography Flannery was born in Limerick, Ireland, but moved to the United States as a child. He displayed a talent for art and began studying the field in Washington, D.C. He focused his work on sculpture and traveled to Europe to further his studies. Flannery also spent time living in New Orleans, St. Louis, and New York City, but spent most of his life in Washington. He owned one of the largest stone carving businesses in Washington and specialized in carving tombstones. Flannery sculpted a marble bust of General John A. Logan that was previously exhibited in the Capitol. A copy of that bust made by artist Franklin Simmons was used in producing the equestrian sculpture Major General John A. Logan. Flannery never married and lived alone until his death at his residence on December 19, 1922.