1. Darius Cobb was noted as a musician, singer, poet, lecturer, lithographer, and art critic.
20 Facts About Darius Cobb
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The Darius Cobb twins had an older brother, Sylvanus Darius Cobb, Jr.
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Darius Cobb first received his education through public schools, then, with his twin brother, Cyrus, he attended the Lyman School of East Boston.
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Darius Cobb eventually graduated with high honors from Boston Latin School.
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Darius Cobb's home was on Rockland Place in the old John A Gould House.
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Later, Darius Cobb moved to 127A Tremont, the address he was listed at when his biography appeared in the 1918 Marquis Who's Who.
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Cyrus Darius Cobb practiced law for six years but later devoted full-time to the arts of painting and sculpting.
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Darius Cobb's sculptured pieces included a head entitled The Celtic Bard, a heroic bas-relief Prospero and Miranda, a bust of General Butler, a bust of Phillips Brooks and one of local interest, that of Reverend Samuel Francis Smith, author of the patriotic hymn "America".
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Cyrus Darius Cobb wrote and illustrated Sonnets to the Masters of Art.
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Darius Cobb was a full member of the Boston Art Club.
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Darius Cobb had the soldier's hat, the worn knapsack, the dented canteen.
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Later in life the Darius Cobb brothers worked together on a series of paintings illustrating French history for Boston's Tuileries Apartment Hotel.
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However, it was religious paintings for which Darius Cobb would become better known.
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Darius Cobb had worked on it for 34 years before considering it finished.
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Darius Cobb was the author of "The History of Massachusetts", a three-volume work, authoritative for the periods covered and honored by many students of history* as the first comprehensive history of the United States written by an American.
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The portrait of Reverend John Stetson Barry by Darius Cobb is in the private collection of Mrs Barbara C Gray of Gilmanton, NH.
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In 1881, Darius Cobb was hired to paint a series of pictures titled Site of the Boston Medical Library in 1881.
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In 1877, Darius Cobb produced an oil on canvas portrait of Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner.
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In 1890, Darius Cobb painted a portrait of Civil War General Benjamin Butler at the State House in Concord, New Hampshire.
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Darius Cobb's work managed to find life on a postcard, too.