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See also:GREENOUGH, HORATIO (1805-1852) , See also:American sculptor, son of a See also:merchant, was See also:born at See also:Boston, on the 6th of See also:September 18o5. At the See also:age of sixteen he entered Harvard, but he devoted his See also:principal See also:attention to See also:art, and in the autumn of 1825 he went to See also:Rome, where he studied under See also:Thorwaldsen. After a See also:short visit in 1826 to Boston, where he executed busts of See also:John See also:Quincy See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams and other See also:people of distinction, he returned to See also:Italy and took up his See also:residence at See also:Florence. Here one of his first commissions was from See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Fenimore See also:- COOPER
- COOPER (or COUPER), THOMAS (c. 1517-1594)
- COOPER, ABRAHAM (1787—1868)
- COOPER, ALEXANDER (d. i66o)
- COOPER, CHARLES HENRY (18o8-1866)
- COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE (1789-1851)
- COOPER, PETER (1791-1883)
- COOPER, SAMUEL (1609-1672)
- COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON (1768-1841)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1759–1840)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1805–1892)
- COOPER, THOMAS SIDNEY (1803–1902)
Cooper for a See also:group of Chanting Cherubs; and he was chosen by the American See also:government to execute the See also:colossal statue of See also:Washington for the See also:national See also:capital. It was unveiled in 1843, and was really a See also:fine piece of See also:work for its See also:day; but in See also:modern times it has been sharply criticized as unworthy and incongruous. Shortly afterwards he received a second government See also:commission for a colossal group, the ""See also:- RESCUE (in Middle Eng. rescous, from O. Fr. recousse, Low Lat. rescussa, from reexcussa,reexcutere, to shake off again, re, again, ex, off, quatere, to shake)
Rescue," intended to represent the conflict between the Anglo-Saxon and See also:Indian races. In 1851 he returned to Washington to superintend its erection, and in the autumn of 1852 he was attacked by See also:brain See also:fever, of which he died in See also:Somerville near Boston on the 18th of See also:December. Among other See also:works of Greenough may be mentioned a bust of See also:Lafayette, the Medora and the See also:Venus Victrix in the See also:gallery of the Boston See also:Athenaeum. Greenough was a See also:man of wide culture, and wrote well both in See also:prose and See also:verse.
See H. T. Tuckerman, Memoir of Horatio Greenough (New See also:York, 1853).
End of Article: GREENOUGH, HORATIO (1805-1852)
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