William Wetmore Story was an American sculptor, art critic, poet and editor, born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1819 and dying at Vallombrosa in 1895. The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds his marble sculpture Medea, modelled in 1865 and carved in 1868, which was given to the museum by Henry Chauncey in 1894. The atlas records him as the named sculptor of that figure of the mythological sorceress, one of the works the divinity atlas lists among its mythological and sacred images and traces to a maker through this entry.
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Source Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names: Story, William Wetmore (American sculptor, 1819-1895)Birth and Death PlacesQuote, Birth and Death Places
Born: Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States) (inhabited place)
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After graduation, he continued his law studies under his father, was admitted to the Massachusetts bar, and prepared two legal treatises of value.
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William Wetmore Story (February 12, 1819, October 7, 1895) was an American sculptor, art critic, poet, and editor.
Practices: Sculpture, Lead
was an American sculptor, art critic, poet, and editor
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