Born in Enfield, Connecticut on July 18, 1813, he studied art in Hartford until moving to Italy in 1838. There he studied art at
Academia Delle Belle Arti in Florence. Luther Terry went to Rome in 1839 and
lived there permantly.
He
married Louisa in 1861 the widow of sculptor Thomas Crawford whose statue, "Armed Freedom", is in the Capitol Dome,
Washington, D.C.
Exhibitions:
National Academy of Design, 1863, 1866, 1874; Brooklyn Art Association, 1865, 1869; Boston Atheaneum; American Art Union. Source:
Falk, Peter (Ed.) Who Was Who in American Art
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