Greenough

GREENOUGH, Horatio, American sculp tor: b. Boston, 6 Sept. 1805; d. Somerville, Mass., 18 Dec. 1852. When he entered Harvard at 16 he had already modeled in clay and at tempted sculpture. A French sculptor named Binon, resident in Boston, was his first master. During his college career he enjoyed the friend ship and advice of Washington Allston and pro duced the design from which the present Bunker Hill monument was erected. He was graduated in 1825 and went to Rome with letters to Thor waldsen. He returned to Boston in 1826, and after modeling busts of John Quincy Adams, Chief Justice Marshall and others, again went to Italy and established his studio in Florence. His first commission was from James Fenimore Cooper, for whom he executed his

among other original works, the (Medora,) the (Gal lery of the Boston Athenaeum). He went to Paris to model the bust of Lafayette. In 1851 he returned to the United States to superin tend placing in its destination in Washington his group of the 'Rescue,' in which the triumph of civilization is symbolized. Many vexatious delays prevented the arrival of the work from Italy, and Greenough, unaccustomed by long absence to the turmoil of American life and the variations of the American climate, was at tacked by brain fever soon after he had com menced, in Boston, a course of lectures on art. He published a volume of