Eminent women of the age : being narratives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present generation . asonsof the hand, the eye, and the taste, for which it should beanticipated that they would generally neglect the one depart-ment of sesthetic pursuits, and cultivate the other with dis-tinguished success. The palette, the pencil, and colors fallnaturally to their hands ; but mallets and chisels are weightyand painful implements, and masses of wet clay, blocks ofmarble, and castings of bronze are rude and intractable mate-rials for feminine labors. Sculpture has special hi
Eminent women of the age : being narratives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present generation . asonsof the hand, the eye, and the taste, for which it should beanticipated that they would generally neglect the one depart-ment of sesthetic pursuits, and cultivate the other with dis-tinguished success. The palette, the pencil, and colors fallnaturally to their hands ; but mallets and chisels are weightyand painful implements, and masses of wet clay, blocks ofmarble, and castings of bronze are rude and intractable mate-rials for feminine labors. Sculpture has special hindrancesfor woman, —though not for any lack of power in her concep-tion and invention, yet in the manual difficulties of the artitself. But genius and earnestness overcome all obstacles,and supply untiring strength; and the world give honorablerecognition to those women who have, with a spirit of vigorand heroism, challenged a place by the side of their brothersas statuaries, and have with real success brought out the formof beauty and the expression of life and passion which sleepin the shapeless and silent *»»°^^ 4 M flARRIET G. HOSMER. 567 One of the most remarkable examples is found in thesubject of the following sketch. The materials from whichit is composed are derived from much correspondence, forwhich we are under special obligations to Wayman Crow,Esq., of St. Louis, the early friend of the artist, and to Hosmer, her kinsman, now of Watertown, Mass. ;from notices and descriptions of her works in various periodi-cals, and from narratives published several years ago by Maria Child, in a Western magazine, and Mrs. Ellet,iu her volume of the Artist Women of all Ages and Coun-tries. The latter gives a consistent portraiture of Miss Hos-mer, but has been led into inaccuracies in regard to severalof the alleged facts. The notice of Tuckerman, iu his bookof American Artist Life, is quite too meagre to be just andvaluable. Mrs. Child,
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