Horatio Greenough

American artist (1805-1852) · United States · On the map · Artists · Died at 47

Horatio Greenough was an American sculptor best known for his United States government commissions The Rescue (1837-1850) and George Washington (1840).

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Horatio Greenough, 1852, albumen print after a daguerreotype by John Adams Whipple, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC

Horatio Greenough's The Rescue

Horatio Greenough's statue of George Washington, photograph by Alfred Cheney Johnston c. 1899

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