Neoclassical sculptor at the centre of a circle of expatriate women artists in Rome.
Monumental
Subversive
Self-Representation
Fun fact
She had to travel to Missouri to study anatomy, Boston medical schools refused to admit a woman.
How she made it
Neoclassical marble carving from clay models scaled up with a pointing machine, plus her own patented process for turning limestone into marble. She ran a Roman studio of assistants and finished the critical surfaces herself.
Work
Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, modeled c. 1859; carved after 1859
