. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . ered apoem at the dedication of the statue of Beethovenat the Boston music-hall. In 1848 his fondness forart led to his going to Italy, where he had sinceresided, devoting his attention chiefly to sculp-ture. His statue of his father in the chapel ofMount Auburn cemetery, of Edward Everett inthe Boston public garden, busts of James RussellLowell, Theodore Parker, and Josiah Quincy, art-well-known examples of his art, and he modelleda bronze statue of George Peabody, which waserected in London in 1809, and a replica of whichwas presented in 1888
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . ered apoem at the dedication of the statue of Beethovenat the Boston music-hall. In 1848 his fondness forart led to his going to Italy, where he had sinceresided, devoting his attention chiefly to sculp-ture. His statue of his father in the chapel ofMount Auburn cemetery, of Edward Everett inthe Boston public garden, busts of James RussellLowell, Theodore Parker, and Josiah Quincy, art-well-known examples of his art, and he modelleda bronze statue of George Peabody, which waserected in London in 1809, and a replica of whichwas presented in 1888 to the city of Baltimorethrough the liberality of Robert Garrett. He wasa U. S. commissioner on fine arts to the Worldsfair at Paris in 1879, and had received decorationsfrom France and Italy. Mr. Story held a profess-orship in the Academia degli arcadi Sta. Cecilia,and had received the degree of D. C. L. from theUniversity of Oxford and an honorary degree fromthe University of Bologna on its 800th anniver-sary. Among his other works are Sappho. 712 STOUGHTON STOUGHTON Saul (ISli:!,; ••Delilah (1866); Helen(1869): -Judith (1872): Sardanapalus (1878);••Jerusalem in her Desolation (1870); and The-tis and Achilles (1887-8). His-Cleopatra! lsi;4iand Semiramis (1872) are now in the Metropoli-tiin museum of art in Xew York city. Mr. Storywas also an accomplished musician. During abroad he published Life and Lettersof Joseph Story (2 vols., Boston, 1851); Poems(1856); The American Question (London, 1862); Roba di Roma, or Walks and Talks about Rome (1862); Proportions of the Human Figure accord-ing to a New Canon for Practical Use (1866);Graffiti dltalia (1869); The Roman Lawyerin Jerusalem (1870); Tragedy of Nero (1875); Castle St. Angelo (1877); He and She, or aPoets Portfolio (1883); Fiammetta (1885);and Poems (2 vols., 1886). His sons are artistsof promise, WALDO being a sculptor and JULIAN apainter, whose works are well known in London,Paris, and Rome.—Jos
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