Sculptor Brendan Thorpe O’Neill primarily sculpts bronze portraits principally American historical figures. His work includes a series of 19^th Century Native American Chieftains; a commemorative sculpture for the Choctaw Cultural Center in Durant Oklahoma with a copy located at The Irish National Famine Museum in Strokestown, Ireland; and portraits of the two iconic American abolitionists, Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, for the State of Maryland. He has also displayed his bronze sculptures at Indiana University, local Washington DC area high schools and the Mt. Zion Pentecostal Church in Maryland.

Although spending alternate careers in Urban Renewal, Mortgage Finance and Home Building, Brendan has been sculpting in bronze for over 45 years. He studied at the Corcoran Gallery of Art School and took masters workshops with prominent portrait and figure sculptors including Eugene Daub; and was fortunate enough to have been mentored and greatly influenced by world-class sculptor Walter Matia.