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GREENOUGH, HORATIO (1805-1852) , American sculptor, son of a merchant, was born at Boston, on the 6th of September 18o5. At the age of sixteen he entered Harvard, but he devoted his principal attention to art, and in the autumn of 1825 he went to Rome, where he studied under Thorwaldsen. After a short visit in 1826 to Boston, where he executed busts of John Quincy Adams and other people of distinction, he returned to Italy and took up his residence at Florence. Here one of his first commissions was from James Fenimore Cooper for a group of Chanting Cherubs; and he was chosen by the American government to execute the colossal statue of Washington for the national capital . It was unveiled in 1843, and was really a fine piece of work
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See H. T. Tuckerman, Memoir of Horatio Greenough (New York
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