Ephraim Keyser

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he was a sculptor noted for numerous commemorative monuments such as the statue to President Chester Arthur and the memorial bust to poet Sidney Lanier.

He studied in Baltimore and with Widmann at the Royal Academy of Munich,  with Albert Wolff at the Royal Academy in Berlin and also in Rome.  In 1876, his figure "Psyche" won a silver medal at the Berlin Academy Exhibition.

In 1892, he returned to Baltimore where he became an instructor at the Maryland Institute of Arts.

The work of his early career included both marble and bronze statues, busts and allegorical figures.  In later years, when he modeled World War I Memorials, monuments for the Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery, busts and bas-reliefs of family members and prominent citizens, his work was almost exclusively in bronze.
 
Keyser was a revered teacher at both the Maryland Institute and the Rinehart School of Sculpture in Baltimore for nearly 30 years.  He was involved in organizing the National Sculpture Society's 1908 show in Baltimore and actively participated in the artistic life of the city.
 

Source: askart.com