William Wetmore Story. William Wetmore Story was an American sculptor, art critic, poet, and editor.
William Wetmore Story was the son of jurist Joseph Story and Sarah Waldo Story. He graduated from Harvard College in 1838 and the Harvard Law School in 1840.
After graduation, he continued his law studies under his father, was admitted to the Massachusetts bar, and prepared two legal treatises of value, Treatise on the Law of Contracts not under Seal and Treatise on the Law of Sales of Personal Property. He soon abandoned the law though to devote himself to sculpture, and after 1850 lived in Rome, where he had first visited in 1848, and where he counted among his friends the Brownings and Walter Savage Landor.
In 1856, he received a commission for a bust of his late father, now in the Memorial Hall/Lowell Hall, Harvard University. Story's apartment in Palazzo Barberini became a central location for Americans in Rome.
During the American Civil War his letters to the Daily News in December 1861, and his articles in Blackwood's Magazine, had considerable influence on English opinion. One of his most famous works, Cleopatra, was described and admired in Nathaniel Hawthorne's romance, The Marble Faun, and is on display at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA. Another work, the Angel of Grief, has been replicated near the Stanford Mausoleum at Stanford University. Among his other life-size statues he compl
William Wetmore Story was the son of jurist Joseph Story and Sarah Waldo Story. He graduated from Harvard College in 1838 and the Harvard Law School in 1840.
After graduation, he continued his law studies under his father, was admitted to the Massachusetts bar, and prepared two legal treatises of value, Treatise on the Law of Contracts not under Seal and Treatise on the Law of Sales of Personal Property. He soon abandoned the law though to devote himself to sculpture, and after 1850 lived in Rome, where he had first visited in 1848, and where he counted among his friends the Brownings and Walter Savage Landor.
In 1856, he received a commission for a bust of his late father, now in the Memorial Hall/Lowell Hall, Harvard University. Story's apartment in Palazzo Barberini became a central location for Americans in Rome.
During the American Civil War his letters to the Daily News in December 1861, and his articles in Blackwood's Magazine, had considerable influence on English opinion. One of his most famous works, Cleopatra, was described and admired in Nathaniel Hawthorne's romance, The Marble Faun, and is on display at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA. Another work, the Angel of Grief, has been replicated near the Stanford Mausoleum at Stanford University. Among his other life-size statues he compl
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