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HOSMER, HARRIET GOODHUE (183o-19o8)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 791 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOSMER, HARRIET GOODHUE (183o-19o8) , See also:American sculptor, was See also:born at See also:Watertown, Massachussetts, on the 9th of See also:October 1830. She See also:early showed marked aptitude for See also:model-See also:ling, and studied See also:anatomy with her See also:father, a physician, and afterwards at the St See also:Louis Medical See also:College. She then studied in See also:Boston until 1852, when, with her friend See also:Charlotte See also:Cushman, she went to See also:Rome, where from 1853 to 186o she was the See also:pupil of the See also:English sculptor See also:John See also:Gibson. She lived in Rome until a few years before her See also:death. There she was associated with Nathaniel See also:Hawthorne, See also:Thorwaldsen, See also:Flaxman, See also:Thackeray, See also:George See also:Eliot and George See also:Sand; and she was frequently the See also:guest of the Brownings at Casa See also:Guidi, in See also:Florence. Among her See also:works are " See also:Daphne " and See also:Medusa," ideal heads (1853); " Puck " (1855), a spirited and graceful conception which she copied for the See also:prince of See also:Wales, the See also:duke of See also:Hamilton and others; "See also:Oenone" (1855), her first See also:life-sized figure, now in the St Louis Museum of See also:Fine Arts; " See also:Beatrice See also:Cenci " (18J7), for the See also:Mercantile Library of St Louis; " See also:Zenobia, See also:Queen of See also:Palmyra, in Chains " (1859), now in the See also:Metropolitan Museum of See also:Art, New See also:York See also:City; " A Sleeping Faun " (1867); " A Waking Faun "; a See also:bronze statue of See also:Thomas H. See also:Benton (1868) for See also:Lafayette See also:Park, St Louis; bronze See also:gates for the See also:earl of Brownlow's art See also:gallery at Ashridge See also:Hall; a See also:Siren See also:fountain for See also:Lady Marian See also:Alford; a fountain for Central Park, New York City; a See also:monument to See also:Abraham See also:Lincoln;. and, for the Columbian Exposition, See also:Chicago, 1893, statues of the queen of See also:Naples as the " heroine of See also:Gaeta," and of Queen See also:Isabella of See also:Spain. See also:Miss Hosmer died at Watertown, See also:Mass., on the 21st of See also:February 1908.

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