biography
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Story, William Wetmore
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| male
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| lived:
| (1819–95)
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| biography:
| Sculptor, poet, and lawyer, born in Salem, Massachusetts, USA, the son of Justice Joseph Story. He studied at Harvard, practised law, and studied sculpture in Italy (1847) before settling there permanently (1856). He wrote poetry and became a close friend of Robert and Elizabeth Browning and Henry James. He is known for his literary interests and related sculptures, such as ‘Cleopatra’ (1858). |
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