STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819-95). An American author and sculptor. He was born at Salem, Mass., the son of Justice Story of the United States Supreme Court. After studying law at Harvard College, and under his father's direction, he was admitted to the bar, and prac ticed his profession in Boston. He published several • legal books, among them: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in. the Circuit Court of the United States (1842-47) ; a Treatise on the Law of Contracts ( 1S44) ; and a Treatise on the Law of Sales of Personal Property (1847). In 1848 he gave up law and went to Italy, where he made his home, residing principally at Rome, and died at Vallombrosa. The list of his works as a sculptor includes monuments, statues, ideal figures, and portrait busts. In the .11etropolitan Museum, New York City, are the statues of Cleopatra (1864) and Semiramis (1S74); other works by him include a statue of his father (Mount Auburn Cemetery) ; Edward Everett (Boston Public Gardens) ; a bronze statue of George Peabody, erected in London (replica, Baltimore, 1888) ; and the monument of Francis Scott Key in the Golden Gate Park. San Fran
cisco. His last work was the "Angel of Grief," a monument erected to his wife, whom he sur vived but a year. His work is done in the classical style. showing, however, some slight tendency toward realism. Story was prolific in literature as well as in art. He published The American Question Roba di Roma (1862) ; Proportions of the Human Figure (1866) ; Graffiti d'Italia (1869) ; five volumes of his poems: and the Life and Letters of Joseph Story (1851). Story was United States com missioner on fine arts to the World's Fair at Paris (1879), and received decorations from France and Italy. An admirable Life of Story by Henry James appeared in 1903 (London and New York).—His son, JULIA STORY, a portrait painter, was a student of Duveneek, Boulanger, and Lefebvre. He received a gold medal in Ber lin in 1891, was elected a member of the Society of American Artists in 1S92, and won a silver medal at the Paris Expositicn of 1900. Among his sitters were King Edward VII. and Emma Eames, whom he married.