Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907)

Aliases: Augusta Homer Saint-Gaudens; Augustus St. Gaudens

Professions: Sculptor; Painter

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  AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS 1848-1907 DIANA OF THE TOWER

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  Augustus Saint-Gaudens 1848-1907 , Diana of the Tower bronze, dark brown patina

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Augustus Saint-Gaudens Biography

(b Dublin, 1 March 1848; d Cornish, NH, 3 Aug 1907). American sculptor and painter. His father was a French shoemaker who lived in Dublin for seven years and married an Irish woman. When Augustus was six months old, the family moved to the USA, living briefly in Boston before settling in New York. In 1861 he was apprenticed to the cameo-cutter Louis Avet, who was a good teacher but a harsh employer. After a dispute, Saint-Gaudens left him in 1864 to work for the shell cameo-cutter Jules LeBrethon, producing such works as the Head of Hercules (c. 1867; Cornish, NH, Saint-Gaudens N. Hist. Site). During these apprenticeships he attended drawing classes at night school, first at the Cooper Union in New York and then at the National Academy of Design, where he studied under Daniel Huntington and Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze. In 1867 he left LeBrethon’s employ to travel to Europe, but before departing he modelled a bust of his father, Bernard Saint-Gaudens (1867; Cornish, NH, Saint-Gaudens N. Hist. Site). In Paris he again obtained a job as cameo-cutter and studied at the Petite Ecole until he gained admission to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1868, when he enrolled in the studio of François Jouffroy. At the Exposition Universelle of 1868, he, like other artists, was greatly impressed and influenced by the gilded bronze Florentine Singer (1865; version, Paris, Louvre) by Paul Dubois (i).

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