. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. , remarkable for the numlwr andexcellence of his works, incUulinj^ statuary for public edifices andother resorts, was born in New York in IHH
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. , remarkable for the numlwr andexcellence of his works, incUulinj^ statuary for public edifices andother resorts, was born in New York in IHH. His first art-hiborwas wood-carving. When nineteen years old he devoted himself fortwo years to monumental design in a studio in his native city, and married, and returned to Kome the next year with numeroua ordersfor the exerciee of hisj,%nius and skill. Two other visits lo theUnited States were made in 1849 and 1856, At the latter date apainful disorder of the brain, originating In a cancerous tumor,incapacitated him for further work. Hiw family returned to Rome,and he was removed to Paris and Uomlou, unsuccessfully seekingrelief in medical treatment. He died in the hitter city in his many prominent productions are the monument erectedto the memory of Washington by the State of Virginia; the bronzestatue of Beethoven in the Boston Music hall; the colossal equestrianstatue of Washington, twenty-five feet high, at Richmond, Va. ; the. By H. Herkomer EVENTIDE. From the Picture Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1878. , enah 1 crea I reso ) stril. ^ -C^.— while there produced busts of Chief Justice Marshall and other per-sons. At the end of that time he went to Italy and studied and workedwithThorwaldsen, the famous sculptor, for several years, barely beingable to support himself, yet industriously pursuing his art. Thefame of his statue of Orpheus having reached his native land, acopy was subscribed for at the instance of Charles Sumner. Itsreception in Boston was
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