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HORATIO GREENOUGH (1805-1852)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 550 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GREENOUGH (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 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 Fenimore See also: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," 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 See also: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) .

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