William Wetmore Story was a 19th-century sculptor known for idealized classical* subjects including Cleopatra, Lybian Sibyl and the Medea. He was the son of US Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, and was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1819, and educated at Harvard University. He had begun a successful career as a lawyer, writing several important books on the law when his father died in 1845.
A memorial statue of the famous jurist was planned, and at the young (showing 500 of 2933 characters). |
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