George Frampton became his mentor at the Royal Academy School, and his influence resonated in Angel's work.

[8] He teamed with architect Ralph Adams Cram in outfitting Pittsburgh's East Liberty Presbyterian Church, colloquially known as the "Cathedral of Hope,"[3] and did the Last Supper group in marble[1] as well as tympana over several entrances.

A statue of Alexander Hamilton in Lincoln Park in Chicago, Illinois was mired in controversy, at least concerning the surrounding architecture.

Its impetus was that Treasury Secretary Hamilton "secured the nation’s financial future and made it possible for her own family to make its fortune in grain elevators and banking."

Consequently, John Angel was hired to model a figurative sculpture and the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen was to create a "colossal architectural setting" for it.

"[8] She was the daughter of Professor Thomas Day Seymour, of Yale University,[1] and was educated at Bryn Mawr,[B] becoming an American classicist.

[C] In his autobiography Cram wrote, "John Angel had come to America for a visit, and we had induced him, rather against his will I fancy, to do for us...Out of the blue, so to speak, had fallen upon us the very sculptor we had dreamed of but hardly dared hope for.

[15] Two main works were at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City,[11] and in the George Rogers Clark National Historical Park in Vincennes, Indiana.

[16] Elizabeth Day Seymour's papers are with her family's 51 linear feet on deposit at the Yale University Library.