... him; the work has nothing of the cold, disconsolate look of death about it; the artist has animated it with the warm breath of peace. A critic in the Richmond Enquirer, commenting upon a saying of Thorwaldsen 's, that he did not fear his own conception, says the truth, and purity, and strength of Mr. Valentine's modelling is such that he verifies the remark of the great Dane——he did not fear hi...