Waldo Story

Thomas Waldo Story (December 9, 1854 – October 23, 1915) was an American sculptor, art critic, poet and literary editor, living for most of his life in Rome, Italy.

Waldo Story
Born
Thomas Waldo Story

(1854-12-09)December 9, 1854
Paris, France
DiedOctober 23, 1915(1915-10-23) (aged 60)
New York, New York
Occupation(s)Artist, writer
Spouses
Ada Maud Broadwood
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(m. 1883)​
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    (m. 1912)​
    Parent

    Life
    Central figures in the Fountain of Love, Cliveden, sculpted by Story

    Story was born in Paris in 1854 to the sculptor William Wetmore Story,[1] son of early Supreme Court justice Joseph Story.[2]

    While his parents lived in Rome, Waldo was educated in England at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford. Afterwards, he moved to Rome himself where he shared a studio with his father and, after the latter's death in 1895, took over his lease of an apartment in the Palazzo Barberini.[3]

    In 1883 Waldo Story married Ada Maud Broadwood (1856-1932), the eldest child of Thomas Capel Broadwood and Mary Davidson Hennin.[4] In 1912, he was married for a second time to opera singer Bessie Pickens Abott.[5]

    Waldo Story frequently stayed in England where he was friends with James Abbott McNeill Whistler.[6] He is best known for his Fountain of Love in the grounds of Cliveden, Buckinghamshire.[7]

    He died at his home in New York City in 1915.[8]

    • Mrs. Ada Maud Story by John Singer Sargent, 1883
      Mrs. Ada Maud Story by John Singer Sargent, 1883
    • Fountain of Love
      Fountain of Love
    • Sculpture by Thomas Waldo Story at the Ascott House, Buckinghamshire
      Sculpture by Thomas Waldo Story at the Ascott House, Buckinghamshire

    References
    1. Levy, Florence Nightingale (1917). American Art Annual, Volume 13. MacMillan Company. p. 319.
    2. Mary E. Phillips, Reminiscences of William Wetmore Story, Chicago, 1897, p. 118; The Browning's Correspondence, online edition, William Wetmore Story.
    3. Waldo Story's obituary in American Art News, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Oct. 30, 1915), p. 4.
    4. Ada Broadwood's paternal grandparents were James Shudi Broadwood and Margaret Schaw Stewart, her maternal grandparents were Alfred Hennin, an American lawyer and jurist in New Orleans, and Ann Maria Davison. Ada Maud Broadwood's great grandfather was John Broadwood who founded the London firm of John Broadwood and Sons, maker of pianofortes, with Burkat Shudi.
    5. "Bessie Abott Wed To T. Waldo Story. Famous American Opera Singer Married Sculptor Some Time Ago in Europe". New York Times. September 27, 1912. Retrieved December 6, 2009.
    6. Biography of Story at the Centre for Whistler studies.
    7. "Thomas Waldo Story". Jan's & Company. Retrieved February 8, 2014.
    8. "Sculptor Story". New York Times. October 25, 1915. Retrieved December 6, 2009. Thomas Waldo Story, sculptor of wide renown and husband of Bessie Abott, the American opera singer, who died Saturday morning at his home, No. 133 East Sixtieth street, New York, was 50 years old. He leaves his first wife and second wife and two daughters.


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