SCULPTOR

Horatio Greenough

1805 - 1852

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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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Horatio Greenough has received more than 92,529 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Horatio Greenough is the 235th most popular sculptor, the 9,547th most popular biography from United States and the 16th most popular American Sculptor.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Horatio Greenough ranks 235 out of 258. Before him are Anna Golubkina, Sabiha Bengütaş, Erzsébet Schaár, Hellmuth Marx, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and Chris Burden. After him are Francis Leggatt Chantrey, Knut Steen, Beverly Pepper, Ronald Pope, Mari Gerekmezyan, and Mikhail Anikushin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Horatio Greenough ranks 76. Before him are Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, William Harrison Ainsworth, Samuel Palmer, James Wilson, Michael Sars, and Salustiano de Olózaga y Almandoz. After him are Angelina Grimké, Samuel Ryan Curtis, and Frederick Denison Maurice. Among people deceased in 1852, Horatio Greenough ranks 63. Before him are Álvares de Azevedo, František Čelakovský, Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen, Francisco Javier Echeverría, Christoph Gudermann, and Jacques Bernard Hombron. After him are Frances Wright, Walter Forward, Andrew Jackson Downing, and John George Children.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Horatio Greenough ranks 9,547 out of 20,380. Before him are Kylie Ireland (1970), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (1956), Kevin Moore (1967), Brian Grazer (1951), Mary Eaton (1901), and Karl Rove (1950). After him are Ken Burns (1953), Mindy Sterling (1953), George Russell (1923), Norman Alden (1924), Arnold Denker (1914), and Michael Wong (1965).

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Among SCULPTORS In United States

Among sculptors born in United States, Horatio Greenough ranks 16. Before him are Audrey Munson (1891), Edmonia Lewis (1844), Duane Hanson (1925), Daniel Chester French (1850), Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875), and Chris Burden (1946). After him are Beverly Pepper (1922), Augusta Savage (1892), Dale Chihuly (1941), Harriet Hosmer (1830), Anna Hyatt Huntington (1876), and Ruth Asawa (1926).

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