See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
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
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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)
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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
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He died at Vallombroso, See also:Italy, on the 7th of See also:October 1895
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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
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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
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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
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See also:Quincy of Harvard, at See also:Cambridge, Mass.; See also:Colonel See also:Prescott, at Bunker See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
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
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry for the Smithsonian Institution, See also:Washington; and See also:Francis See also:Scott See also:Key, See also:San Francisco
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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 (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
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
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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
- 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, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Wetmore Story and his See also:Friends (2 vols., London, 1903)
.
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