Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Louisa Lander became a sculptor who spent much time in Rome where, in 1856, she became a studio assistant to Thomas Crawford. In Rome, she first met novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, who was also from Salem, and while he posed for Lander for an oversized portrait bust of himself, he became enamored of her. He decided to use her as the model for the free-spirited women artists he depicted in his novel, The Marble Faun.
Of her he wrote: "There ar (showing 500 of 2585 characters). |
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