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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Greenough , Horatio 1805 -1852 (search)
Greenough, Horatio 1805-1852
Sculptor; born in Boston, Mass., Sept. 6, 1805; graduated at Harvard in 1825; evinced a taste and talent for the cultivation of art in
Horatio Greenough. his early youth; and soon after his graduation he went to Italy, where he remained about a year.
On his return to Boston in 1826 he modelled several busts, and then returned to Italy, making Florence his residence.
Ever active, ever learning, and exceedingly industrious, he executed many pieces of sculpture of great merit.
Among them was a group—The Chanting Cherubs—the first of the kind ever undertaken by an American sculptor.
He made a colossal statue of Washington, half nude, in a sitting posture, for the Capitol at Washington, but it was so large that it could not be taken into the rotunda, its destined resting-place, and it occupies a position before the eastern front of the great building.
He also executed a colossal group for the government—The rescue—which occupied the artist about
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, R. (search)
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)