Patience Wright
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American sculptor of wax figures (1725–1786)
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1953-12-21
- Active to
- 2020-05-10
background vocalistdiscogospelrhythm and bluessoul
Discography
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 20,935x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,443x
- Genome engineering using the CRISPR-Cas9 system
· 2013 · cited 10,766x
- Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure
· 2003 · cited 10,041x
- First‐Year
<i>Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe</i>
(
<i>WMAP</i>
) Observations: Determination of Cosmological Parameters
· 2003 · cited 9,194x
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Quotes
- “My Friends Write to Me from America that Joseph Wright (my Son) "has Painted a Likeness and also moddel’d a Clay Bust of General Washington which will be a very great honour to My Famaly."”
- “I most heartly thank my god for Sparing My life to See this hapy day.”
- “I joyne with all My friends in the pleasing prospect that Posterity will See, and behold the Statue of the man who was apointed by his Contry, and the voice of the Enlightend Part of Mankind to be the great general to Save the Liberties of the Christian Religion and Stop the Pride and Insolence of old England. and by his truly great and Noble Example in all human Vertues he has Restord Peace on Earth, good Will toward mankind.”
- “Truly hapy are You Sir, to have the greatful thanks of all Europe—with the Prayir of the Widows and the Fatherless—You have my most greatful thanks for your Kind atention to my Son in taking him in to your Famaly to encourage his genii and giving him the pleasing opertunity of taking a Likeness that has I Sincerly hope, gave his Contry and your Friends Sir, Satisfaction.”
- “I am Impatient to have a Copy of what he has done that I may have the honour of making a model from it in Wax Work—it has been for some time the Wish and desire of my heart to moddel a Likeness of generel Washington, then I shall think my Self ariv’d at the End of all my Earthly honours and Return in Peace to Enjoy my Native Country. I am Sir with gratitude an Respect Your very humble Servnt”
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- NPG 86 168 Wright.tif
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- date of death
- 1786-03-25
- date of birth
- 1725-01-01
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1725 births1786 deaths18th-century American sculptors18th-century American women artists18th-century women sculptorsAccidental deaths from falls in the United KingdomAccidental deaths in LondonAmerican emigrants to EnglandAmerican QuakersAmerican spies during the American RevolutionAmerican women sculptorsArtists from PhiladelphiaPatriots in the American RevolutionPeople from Bordentown, New JerseyPeople from Oyster Bay, New YorkPeople from the Province of New YorkPeople of New York (state) in the American RevolutionSculptors from LondonSculptors from New JerseySculptors from PennsylvaniaWomen in the American Revolution