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STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (18191895) , American sculptor and poet, son of the jurist, Joseph Story, was born at Salem, Massachusetts, on the 12th of February 1819. He graduated at Harvard College in 1838 and at the Harvard Law School In 1840, continued his law studies under his father, was admitted to the Massachusetts bar, and prepared two legal treatises of value--Treatise on the Law of Contracts not under Seal (2 vols., 1844) and Treatise on the Law of Sales of Personal Property (1847). Abandoning the law, he devoted himself to sculpture, and after 1850 lived in Rome, whither he had first gone in 1848, and where he was intimate with the Brownings and with Landor. He died at Vallombroso, Italy, on the 7th of October 1895. He was a man of rare social cultivation and charm of manner, and his studio in Rome was a centre for the gathering of distinguished English and American literary, musical and artistic people. During the American Civil War his letters to the Daily News in December 1861 (afterwards published as a pamphlet, " The American Question," i.e. of neutrality), and his articles in Blackwood's, had considerable influence on English opinion . One of his earliest works in sculpture was a statue of h's father, now in the memorial chapel of Mount
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His son, JULIAN STORY (18J7 ), the portrait painter, was a pupil of Frank Duveneck, and of Boulanger and Lefebvre in Paris, and became a member of the Society of American Artists, 1892, a chevalier of the Legion of Honour, Paris, Igor, and an associate of the National Academy of Design. He married in 1891 Emma Eames (b. 1867), the operatic prima donna, who secured a divorce in 1907. See also Henry James, William Wetmore Story and his Friends (2 vols., London, 1903). End of Article: STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (18191895) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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