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WILLIAM WETMORE STORY (1819—1895)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 970 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM WETMORE See also:STORY (1819—1895)  , See also:American sculptor and poet, son of the jurist, See also:Joseph See also:Story, was See also:born at See also:Salem, See also:Massachusetts, on the 12th of See also:February 1819 . He graduated at Harvard See also:College in 1838 and at the Harvard See also:Law School In 1840, continued his law studies under his See also:father, was admitted to the Massachusetts See also:bar, and prepared two legal See also:treatises of value--See also:Treatise on the Law of Contracts not under See also:Seal (2 vols., 1844) and Treatise on the Law of Sales of See also:Personal See also:Property (1847) . Abandoning the law, he devoted himself to See also:sculpture, and after 1850 lived in See also:Rome, whither he had first gone in 1848, and where he was intimate with the Brownings and with See also:Landor . He died at Vallombroso, See also:Italy, on the 7th of See also:October 1895 . He was a See also:man of rare social cultivation and See also:charm of manner, and his studio in Rome was a centre for the gathering of distinguished See also:English and American See also:literary, musical and See also:artistic See also:people . During the American See also:Civil See also:War his letters to the Daily See also:News in See also:December 1861 (afterwards published as a pamphlet, " The American Question," i.e. of See also:neutrality), and his articles in See also:Blackwood's, had considerable See also:influence on English See also:opinion . One of his earliest See also:works in sculpture was a statue of h's father, now in the memorial See also:chapel of See also:Mount See also:Auburn See also:Cemetery, See also:Cam-See also:bridge, See also:Mass.; others are " See also:Cleopatra " (of which there is an enthusiastic description in See also:Hawthorne's See also:Marble Faun) and " See also:Semiramis " in the See also:Metropolitan Museum of See also:Art, New See also:York; the " Libyan Sibil," " See also:Saul," " See also:Sardanapalus," " See also:Judith,"" See also:Delilah," " See also:Jerusalem Desolate," " See also:Alcestis," " See also:Medea," " See also:Electra," " See also:Nemesis," " See also:Sappho " and other ideal figures; and portraits of See also:George See also:Peabody, erected in 1869. in See also:London (a replica in See also:bronze being in See also:Baltimore, See also:Maryland); See also:President . See also:Quincy of Harvard, at See also:Cambridge, Mass.; See also:Colonel See also:Prescott, at Bunker See also:Hill; See also:Edward See also:Everett, Public Gardens, See also:Boston, Mass.; See also:Chief See also:Justice See also:Marshall, on the See also:west See also:terrace of the Capitol, and See also:Professor See also:Henry for the Smithsonian Institution, See also:Washington; and See also:Francis See also:Scott See also:Key, See also:San Francisco . Among his writings, in addition to the legal treatises mentioned above, are See also:Life and Letters of Joseph Story (1851), Roba di See also:Roma (1862), Proportions of the Human Figure (1866), Fiammetta (1885), a novel, Conversations in a Studio (1890), Excursions in Art and Letters (1891), and several volumes of poems of considerable merit . His poems were collected in two volumes in 1885 . Among the longer are " A See also:Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem " (a rehabilitation of Judas Iscariot), " A Jewish See also:Rabbi in Rome," " The Tragedy of See also:Nero " and " Ginevra di See also:Siena." The last named, with " Cleopatra," was included in his Graffiti d'Italia, a collection published in 1868 . His son, See also:JULIAN STORY (18J7– ), the portrait painter, was a See also:pupil of See also:Frank See also:Duveneck, and of See also:Boulanger and See also:Lefebvre in See also:Paris, and became a member of the Society of American Artists, 1892, a See also:chevalier of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour, Paris, Igor, and an See also:associate of the See also:National See also:Academy of See also:Design .

He married in 1891 Emma Eames (b . 1867), the operatic prima donna, who secured a See also:

divorce in 1907 . See also Henry See also:James, See also:William Wetmore Story and his See also:Friends (2 vols., London, 1903) .

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