Harriet Hosmer

Harriet Goodhue Hosmer ( born October 9, 1830 in Watertown ( Massachusetts), USA, † February 21, 1908 ibid ) was an American sculptor. Harriet Hosmer took at an early age with the sculptor Stevenson in Boston instruction in modeling, then went to St. Louis, traveled to western North America and founded a studio in her native city, where she created her first work.

1852 she went with her father to Europe and was in Rome student John Gibson, under whose direction she made her first major studies and replicating some works by old masters.

Your own creations had because of her strong, energetic, almost masculine character of great successes, such as Puck, on a mushroom she had to repeat many times because of his lovely sense of humor, a Sleeping Satyr (now in the Cleveland Museum of Art), a supervising Satyr a siren as well model, Beatrice Cenci, a tethered very realistically treated Queen Zenobia ( Zenobia in chains, 1859, now in the Huntington library in San Marino in Los Angeles, California ) and the bronze statue of the statesman Thomas Hart Benton in Lafayette Park in St. Louis, Missouri.