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HIRAM See also: American sculptor, the son of a See also: farmer, was See also: born at See also: Woodstock, See also: Vermont, on the 29th of See also: June 18o5
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In 1819 his See also: father removed to See also: Ohio, about six See also: miles from See also: Cincinnati, where the son attended school for about a See also: year, staying meanwhile with his See also: brother, alawyerin Cincinnati
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After leaving school he found employment in superintending a See also: reading-See also: room in connexion with the chief hotel of the See also: town, but, being, in his own words, " forced at last to leave that place as his clothes and shoes were fast leaving him," he became a clerk in a general store
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His second employer in this See also: line of business having invested his capital in a See also: clock and See also: organ factory, See also: Powers set himself to master the construction of the See also: instruments, displaying an aptitude which in a See also: short See also: time enabled him to become the first mechanic in the factory
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In 1826 he began to frequent the studio of Mr Eckstein, and at once conceived a strong passion for the See also: art of sculpture
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His proficiency in modelling secured him the situation of general assistant and artist of the Western Museum, kept by a Frenchman named Dorfeuille, where his ingenious See also: representation of the infernal regions to illustrate the more striking scenes in the poem of See also: Dante met with extraordinary success
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After studying thoroughly the art of modelling and casting, at the end of 1834 he went to See also: Washington, where his remarkable gifts soon awakened general See also: attention
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In 1837 he settled in Florence, where he remained till his See also: death
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While he found it profitable to devote the greater See also: part of his time to busts, his best efforts were bestowed on ideal See also: work
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In 1839 his statue of " See also: Eve " excited the warm admiration of See also: Thorwaldsen, and in 1843 he produced his celebrated " See also: Greek Slave," which at once gave him a place among the leading sculptors of his time
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Among the best known of his other ideal statues are the " See also: Fisher Boy." " Il Penseroso," See also: Proserpine," " California," " See also: America " (modelled for the Crystal Palace, Sydenham), and the " Last of his Tribe." He died on the 27th of June 1873
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See an article by T
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A . See also: Trollope in Lippincott's See also: Magazine for See also: February 1875
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