Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . d votaries are also priests at the altar of humanity, they aredoubly mourned and honored. Such was the just reflection of the intimatepersonal friend of Greenough, the Sculptor, expressed in closing a brief memoirof that gifted and earth-lost artist. Throughout life, Greenough was, indeed,a priest at the altar of humanity, for his noble soul was the eager recipient ofall good impressions, and his heart and hand were the almoners of a multitude of 1
Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . d votaries are also priests at the altar of humanity, they aredoubly mourned and honored. Such was the just reflection of the intimatepersonal friend of Greenough, the Sculptor, expressed in closing a brief memoirof that gifted and earth-lost artist. Throughout life, Greenough was, indeed,a priest at the altar of humanity, for his noble soul was the eager recipient ofall good impressions, and his heart and hand were the almoners of a multitude of 1. Henry T. Tuckerman, Esq., whose Memorial of Greenough, published bv Putnam in a small yol-ume, is a most beautiful tribute of a warm heart to the memory of a beloved friend and brilliant little volume also contains many of the literary productions of the artist, and tributes of others tohis genius, in prose and verse. I am indebted to Mr. Tuckerman for the accompanying portrait, whichis a copy of a fine daguerreotype from life, in his possession ; and to his Memorial for the principal factsin this sketch. !94 HORATIO ^^^^^^^f^/^^p-e^^^-y-^^c^-^^^^ bounties. Superior to all jealousies, he recognized no rivals in art, for all wholoved the Good, the Beautiful and the True, were loved by him and reciprocatedthat love. Horatio Greenough was born in Boston, on the 6th of September, 1805. Hisfather was one of those enterprising merchants who, at the commencement ofour century, held highest social position in the New England metropolis. Thehome of the gifted child of whom we are writing, was a model of excellent in-fluences, and his education was entrusted to the most eminent instructors. Hisgenius, and his taste for art, were developed simultaneously in his early child-hood; and hours devoted by other boys in romping plaj^, were employed by himin carving toys for his companions, the implements of his atdier being a pencil,knife and scissors. One day he sat up
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