Horatio Greenough (1805-1852)

Professions: Sculptor

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  AMERICAN SCHOOL, POSSIBLY HORATIO GREENOUGH (1805-1852)

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  Attributed to Horatio Greenough (1805-1852)

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Horatio Greenough Biography

(b Boston, MA, 6 Sept 1805; d Somerville, MA, 18 Dec 1852). Sculptor and writer. He was brought up in a wealthy, cultured home and was given a classical education. He drew and modelled from engravings and antique plaster casts in the Boston Athenaeum and studied with the French sculptor J. B. Binon (fl 1818–20) in Boston. After graduating from Harvard, he was encouraged by Washington Allston, his first mentor and life-long friend, to go to Italy in 1825 to study ancient and Renaissance art. Influenced by the Neo-classical aesthetic of the international art community in Rome and by his studies with Bertel Thorvaldsen, he aspired to create a truly American art. In 1826, illness forced him to return home.

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