Florence Freeman

For the actress, see Florence Freeman (actress).

Sandalphon by Florence Freeman

Florence Freeman (1836–1876) was an American sculptor.

Freeman was born in Boston, Massachusetts. After studying with Richard Saltonstall Greenough, she went to Italy with Charlotte Cushman, and studied for one year in Florence with Hiram Powers. In 1862 she opened a studio in Rome, where she spent her professional life. She executed several bas-reliefs of Dante; a bust of Sandalphon; "The Sleeping Child"; "Thekla, or the Tangled Skein"; and several chimneypieces, one of which, "Children and the Yule Log and Fireside Spirits," was at the Centennial exhibition in Philadelphia (1876).

References

"Florence Freeman", Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos. Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889.

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