Vinnie Ream : printed for private distribution only; and to preserve a few souvenirs of artist life from 1865 to 1878 . art, and soon devoted her time exclusively to sculpture. Shereceived her training under Bonnat in Paris, and Majoll In Rome. May 28, 1878, Miss Reammarried Richard Leverldge Hoxie, then a first lieutenant In the Engineer Corps, U. S. A. To Mrs. Hoxie belonged the distinction of having been the first woman from whom astatue was ordered by the United States Government. She received from Congress a com-mission to execute a life-size statue of Abraham Lincoln, which for years occ
Vinnie Ream : printed for private distribution only; and to preserve a few souvenirs of artist life from 1865 to 1878 . art, and soon devoted her time exclusively to sculpture. Shereceived her training under Bonnat in Paris, and Majoll In Rome. May 28, 1878, Miss Reammarried Richard Leverldge Hoxie, then a first lieutenant In the Engineer Corps, U. S. A. To Mrs. Hoxie belonged the distinction of having been the first woman from whom astatue was ordered by the United States Government. She received from Congress a com-mission to execute a life-size statue of Abraham Lincoln, which for years occupied an honoredposition In Statuary Hall In the Capitol, and now stands In the rotunda. Later she was com-missioned to make a statue of Admiral Farragut, which now stands in Farragut Square. Theresidence at the southeast corner of 17th and K streets northwest, where Mrs. Hoxie had livedfor many years, faces this square, and from Its windows an excellent view of the heroic statueof the famous admiral may be obtained. The statue is cast from the bronze of the propellerof the Hartford, Admiral Farraguts flagship. 62. litttttp ISeam i^axip The statues of Lincoln and Farragut are perhaps the best known of the many pieces ofsculpture which Mrs Hoxie executed. Others include ideal statues of Miriam, The West,Sappho, The Spirit of the Carnival and The Indian Girl; also busts in marble, includingone of President Lincoln, which was made for Cornell University. Mrs. Hoxie modeled fromlife portrait busts or medallions of Gen. George B. McClellan, Thaddeus Stevens, John Sherman,Ezra Cornell, Gen. J. C. Fremont, T. Buchanan Read, Elihu B. Washburn, Horace Greeley,Peter Cooper, General Grant, Albert Pike and other prominent Americans. During the years Mrs. Hoxie spent abroad studying and preparing the statue of PresidentLincoln she produced portrait busts of Cardinal Antonelli, Pere Hyacinthe, Dr. Spurgeon,Franz Liszt, Gustave Dore and Kaulbach. Her most recent piece of work was a life-size
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