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| Thomas Ridgeway Gould began in the dry goods business in Boston, Massachusetts and prospered until the Civil War. By 1851 he began sculpting and modelling, and received a little instruction from Seth Cheney. His business eventually failed and he became a successful professional sculptor.
Gould modeled portrait busts for a living, including a bust of Ralph Waldo Emerson. He also modeled a head of Satan based on a Roman imperial bust, Goulds was originally created in plaster in 1864 and turned into marble in 1878, now in the Boston Athenaeum.
In 1868 he went to Italy and opened a studio in Florence, where he spent the rest of his life, except for brief visits to the United States in 1878 and 1881.
Source:
Baigell, "Dictionary of American Art"
Groce & Wallace, "The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America" |
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