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Harriet G. Hosmer (search for this): chapter 23
es. Anecdotes abound in illustration of Miss Hosmer's untamed frolicsomeness and disposition toter careful inquiry, in her sixteenth year, Miss Hosmer was placed in the celebrated school of Mrs.had. In that Western city, as aforetime, Miss Hosmer set at defiance the conventional rules whic profile view of Hesper, and stated briefly Miss Hosmer's history and desire. Mr. Gibson contempla living sculptors. In the summer of 1855 Miss Hosmer completed Oenone, her first full-length fig: I think you may rest fully satisfied with Miss Hosmer a success. It exceeds any expectations I h executed in marble, in the summer of 1857, Miss Hosmer returned to America,--five years from her dethroned by calamity. In this production Miss Hosmer made a bold, and, on the part of woman, an atue ever was the work of a woman, charging Miss Hosmer with artistic plagiarism, and ascribing thehibition for her benefit. In the year 1860 Miss Hosmer revisited her native town, called there by [20 more...]
Charlotte Cushman (search for this): chapter 23
ng from our poor nature, and allow no paradise on earth,--the envy, jealousy, bitter criticism, and aspersion of partakers and competitors in the same pursuits and the same glories. About this time Miss Hosmer formed acquaintance with Miss Charlotte Cushman, who recognized her ability, and kin. died her desire to study at Rome to a flame. It was arranged that her father, whose affection and devotion to his daughter seemed to equal her energy and enthusiasm, should accompany her there, and lr money liberally, and with English residents entered warmly into the sport. Miss Hosmer, it is related, rode with astonishing ease and fearlessness. None of the English officers excelled her in leaping ditches and fences. With her friend, Miss Cushman, she often led the chase, returning with quite as just claims for the fox as gentlemen could present. By the rules of the hunt the tail of the fox, called the brush, is given to the best and boldest rider as a trophy; but the Italians, having
Americans (search for this): chapter 23
r native land. The latter was an indispensable condition of health: accordingly she rode about the city and its environs without restraint; and after a while people ceased to wonder. About six years ago three persons established a pack of hounds in Rome for the purpose of fox-hunting. Our artist, as one of them, contributed two hundred and fifty dollars, and procured the services of a huntsman, whom she mounted at her own expense. This grew into a society of Italians and foreigners. Americans gave their money liberally, and with English residents entered warmly into the sport. Miss Hosmer, it is related, rode with astonishing ease and fearlessness. None of the English officers excelled her in leaping ditches and fences. With her friend, Miss Cushman, she often led the chase, returning with quite as just claims for the fox as gentlemen could present. By the rules of the hunt the tail of the fox, called the brush, is given to the best and boldest rider as a trophy; but the I
Falconnet (search for this): chapter 23
ur of adversity, has been very popular. Twenty-five or thirty copies have been made. One is in the collection of the Prince of Wales. Puck was followed by a companion figure named Will-oa — the-Wisp. At this time was resident in Rome Madame Falconnet, an English lady, whose daughter, a lovely girl of sixteen years, had recently died. Being a Catholic, she was permitted to erect a mortuary monument in the church of San Andrea del Fratte. The design was entrusted to Miss Hosmer. It was ction the still repose of death is finely contrasted with the breathing slumber of life, which even the stone expresses in Beatrice Cenci. Mr. Layard, distinguished for his explorations in Nineveh, thus speaks of it in a letter addressed to Madame Falconnet: I think you may rest fully satisfied with Miss Hosmer a success. It exceeds any expectations I had formed. The unaffected simplicity and tender feeling displayed in the treatment is all that could be desired for such a subject, and cannot
Alfred Hosmer (search for this): chapter 23
d are derived from much correspondence, for which we are under special obligations to Wayman Crow, Esq., of St. Louis, the early friend of the artist, and to Dr. Alfred Hosmer, her kinsman, now of Watertown, Mass.; from notices and descriptions of her works in various periodicals, and from narratives published several years ago by . Maria Child, in a Western magazine, and Mrs. Ellet, in her volume of the Artist women of all ages and countries. The latter gives a consistent portraiture of Miss Hosmer, but has been led into inaccuracies in regard to several of the alleged facts. The notice of Tuckerman, in his book of American artist life, is quite too meagre to be just and valuable. Mrs. Child, who was a family friend, and at one time nearest neighbor of Dr. Hosmer, and who wrote in his house, furnished a very pleasing and reliable sketch. Great care has been taken to preserve in these pages everything which is valuable, and to exclude whatever is not authentic. Harriet G. Hosm
Venus (search for this): chapter 23
They were publicly exhibited in Boston in 1853. The next year Mr. Gibson wrote to Dr. Hosmer, to give him assurance of his daughter's unabated industry and success in her profession, relating also the favorable judgment of the Prussian Ranch, then very aged and one of the greatest of living sculptors. In the summer of 1855 Miss Hosmer completed Oenone, her first full-length figure in marble. Oenone was a nymph of mount Ida, who became the wife of Paris, the beautiful shepherd, to whom Venus had promised the fairest woman in the world. The statue represents her as a shepherdess, bending with grief for her husband's desertion. Her crook lies on the ground. It was sent to Mr. Crow, who had given her, at her departure from America, an order for her first statue, to be filled in her own time by a subject of her own selection. It is a very beautiful production, and afforded such satisfaction that she was commissioned to execute another, on the same terms, for the Mercantile Libra
Hypatia (search for this): chapter 23
the rights and sphere of woman, not a few of their best spirits are quietly working out those problems by enterprising and honorable endeavors with triumphant results. If legislation, from whatever cause, in the past has been unjust, and if sad instances are recorded of calumny which has foamed out against the daughters of learning and art, it is still true that men generally have shown themselves disposed to honor those who have performed lofty achievements. From the time when the women that were wise-hearted wrought for the construction and decoration of the Tabernacle in the wilderness, and the time when Hypatia taught philosophy in Alexandria with inspiring eloquence, to the present, facts show that true and great-hearted women can find sufficient encouragement, from age to age, in the justice, admiration, and substantial rewards of brothers who are brothers; and bright on the pages that shall preserve the history of those noble sisters will stand the name of Harriet G. Hosmer.
Ellet (search for this): chapter 23
of the artist, and to Dr. Alfred Hosmer, her kinsman, now of Watertown, Mass.; from notices and descriptions of her works in various periodicals, and from narratives published several years ago by Mrs. L. Maria Child, in a Western magazine, and Mrs. Ellet, in her volume of the Artist women of all ages and countries. The latter gives a consistent portraiture of Miss Hosmer, but has been led into inaccuracies in regard to several of the alleged facts. The notice of Tuckerman, in his book of Amerly for a few moments and then said, Send the young lady to me,whatever I can teach her, she shall learn. The London art journal asserts that she was received by Mr. Gibson, not as a professed pupil, but as the artist friend of our countryman. Mrs. Ellet writes, Ere long a truly paternal and filial affection sprung up between the master and the pupil, a source of great happiness to themselves, and of pleasure and amusement to all who know and value them, from the curious likeness, yet unlikenes
Clevenger (search for this): chapter 23
woman, but the Medical College of St. Louis afforded the required facilities. Prof. McDowell gave her efficient aid, and sometimes private lectures, when she was present while he prepared for his public demonstrations. She acknowledged her obligations to him with great affection and gratitude, as being a most thorough and patient teacher, as well as at all times a good, kind friend; and afterwards confirmed her words by presenting to him a medallion likeness, cut in marble from a bust by Clevenger. She received a diploma for her attainments. Friendship added charms to the pursuit of science in St. Louis. At Lenox she had formed an affectionate intimacy with a school-mate, the daughter of Mr. Wayman Crow, an eminent citizen of that city. An invitation to visit there had incidentally opened way to the scientific privileges she sought; while in his family she found her residence, and in him, she says, the best friend I ever had. In that Western city, as aforetime, Miss Hosmer
Coolidge (search for this): chapter 23
ds. I felt tranquillized while looking at it, as I do when the rosy clouds are fading into gray twilight, and the pale moon-sickle descends slowly behind the dim woods. The mechanical execution of this bust seemed to me worthy of its lovely and lifelike expression. The swell of cheek and breast is like pure, young, healthy flesh; and the muscles of the beautiful mouth are so delicately cut, that it seems like a thing that breathes. Hesper was presented by the artist to her friend, Miss Coolidge, of Boston. When it was completed she said to her father, Now I am ready to go to Rome. Rome is the Mecca of artists. The tomb of the prophet is not more attractive to devout Mussulmen than its aesthetic treasures to all the children of genius. They flow thither from every cultivated nation, for the study of the noblest models, the inheritance of ancient and modern ages, for the sympathy and encouragement of companions in aspirations and toils, for the exhilaration and joy of artis
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