Frederick William Sievers

Frederick William Sievers (October 26, 1872 – 1966) was an American sculptor, born in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

[1] In 1910 when Sievers was commissioned to create the Virginia Monument at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,[2] he opened a studio in Richmond.

Following the success of the Virginia Monument at Gettysburg, Sievers sculpted a number of other statues commemorating the American Civil War, including the Confederate Monument in Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, New York, and others in Abingdon, Leesburg, Louisa, and Pulaski County, Virginia.

There are four portrait statues by Sievers in the Virginia Capitol, of United States Presidents James Madison and Zachary Taylor and two others, of Patrick Henry and Sam Houston.

There, a historical marker commemorating his workshop in the yard of a home on West 43rd Street stands in South Richmond.