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Horatio Greenough
Horatio Greenough painted by Rembrandt Peale, 1829
BornSeptember 6, 1805
Boston, Massachusetts, US
DiedDecember 18, 1852 (aged 47)
Somerville, Massachusetts, US
EducationSolomon Willard, Alpheus Cary
Known forSculpture
SpouseLouisa Gore

Horatio Greenough (September 6, 1805 – December 18, 1852) was an American sculptor best known for his United States government commissions The Rescue (1837–50) and George Washington (1840).

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Rembrandt Peale

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List of memorials to George Washington

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Giuseppe Ceracchi (1795), White House. Enthroned Washington (1840), by Horatio Greenough, for the United States Capitol. Now in the National Museum of American...

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