![]() Her studio in Rome became a pilgrimage site for royalty and luminaries, drawing such esteemed admirers as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Maria Mitchell, the Prince of Wales, the Crown Princess of Germany, and the exiled queen of Naples (who would become Hosmer’s lover).Īmong her famous visitors was Hans Christian Andersen (April 2, 1805–August 4, 1875) - a man of supreme storytelling genius and aching self-alienation, which Hosmer instantly intuited. Harriet Hosmer - whose remarkable forgotten story I tell in Figuring ( public library), from which this essay too is adapted - was not yet thirty when she became the world’s first successful female sculptor, claimed a place for American art in the European pantheon, and furnished queer culture with a bold new vocabulary of being. ![]()
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