HOSMER, HARRIET GOODHUE Ameri can sculptor, was born at Watertown (Mass.), on Oct. 9, 183o. She early showed an aptitude for modelling, and studied anatomy with her father, a physician, and afterwards at the St. Louis medical college. She then studied in Boston until 1852, when she went to Rome. From 1853 to 186o she was the pupil of the English sculptor, John Gibson, and lived in Rome until a few years before her death. There she was frequently associated with Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thorwaldsen, Flaxman, Thackeray, George Eliot, George Sand and the Brownings. Among her works are "Daphne" and "Medusa," ideal heads (1853); "Puck" "Oenone" (1855), now in the St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts; "Beatrice Cenci" (1857), for the Mercantile library of St. Louis; "Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, in Chains" (1859), now in the Met ropolitan Museum of Art, New York city; "A Sleeping Faun" (1867) ; "A Waking Faun"; a bronze statue of Thomas H. Ben ton (1868) for Lafayette park, St. Louis; bronze gates for the earl of Brownlow's art gallery at Ashridge Hall; a fountain for Central park, New York city; a monument to Abraham Lincoln; and for the Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893, statues of the queen of Naples as the "heroine of Gaeta," and of Queen Isabella of Spain. Miss Harriet Goodhue Hosmer died at Watertown (Mass.), on Feb. 21, 1908.