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Emma Stebbins (1815-1882)
Aliases: Mary Emma Flood; Mary Emma Flood Stebbins; T. E. (Mistress) Stebbins
Professions: Painter; Sculptor
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Emma Stebbins (New York, 1815-1882) Carrara Marble Bust of Antonius as Dionysius, mounted atop a waisted circular socle, inscribed s...
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AN AMERICAN MARBLE BUST OF ANTONIUS AS DIONYSUS
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A sculpted white marble bust of a maiden, dated
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Emma Stebbins (American, 1815-1882) - a white
Emma Stebbins Biography
(b New York, 1815; d New York, 1882). American sculptor. Her parents encouraged her early artistic interest. She first studied in the studio of the leading portrait painter Henry Inman. In 1843 Stebbins was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design, New York. In 1847 she exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. From 1857 to 1870 she lived in Rome, where she studied for a period with Benjamin Paul Akers (1825–61), an American sculptor from Maine, and met the renowned sculptor Harriet Hosmer. Hosmer’s sponsor in Rome, the actress Charlotte Cushman, became Stebbins’s lifelong companion, and in 1860, largely through Cushman’s efforts, Stebbins was commissioned to execute a statue of the leading educator Horace Mann. This was cast in 1867 and installed in the Old State House, Boston. At this time she also completed the low-relief sculpture the Treaty of Henry Hudson with the Indians (1860), for the collection in New York of Marshall O. Roberts; he also commissioned a monument to Christopher Columbus (1867), which was first sited at Central Park and 102nd Street (now New York, Brooklyn Civ. Cent.). Stebbins’s most celebrated work is the Angel of the Waters (1862; cast 1870), made for the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park, New York, where the angel infuses miraculous powers into the Bethesda Waters. Stebbins’s artistic production was limited by the incidence of Cushman’s ill-health. She nursed her companion to her death in 1876.
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