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William Henry Rinehart (September 13, 1825 - October 28, 1874) was a noted American sculptor.
Rinehart was born near Union Bridge, Maryland, where he attended school until he was nearly eighteen. He then began to work on his father's farm, but also became the assistant of a stone-cutter in the neighborhood. In 1844 he began an apprenticeship in the stone-yard of Baughman and Bevan on the site of what is now The Peabody Institute in Baltimore, and studied sculpture at what is now called the Maryland Institute College of Art.
In 1855 Rinehart went to Italy to continue his studies.
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William Henry Rinehart (September 13, 1825 - October 28, 1874) was a noted American sculptor.
Rinehart was born near Union Bridge, Maryland, where he attended school until he was nearly eighteen. He then began to work on his father's farm, but also became the assistant of a stone-cutter in the neighborhood. In 1844 he began an apprenticeship in the stone-yard of Baughman and Bevan on the site of what is now The Peabody Institute in Baltimore, and studied sculpture at what is now called the Maryland Institute College of Art.
In 1855 Rinehart went to Italy to continue his studies. While there he executed two bas-reliefs in marble, Night and Morning. On his return, two years later, he opened a studio in Baltimore, where he executed, besides numerous busts, a fountain-figure for the post-office at Washington, and two figures, Indian and Backwoodsman, to support the clock in the House of Representatives. In 1858 he settled in Rome. During the succeeding eight years there came from his studies Hero and Leander, Indian Girl, St. Cecilia, Sleeping Babes, Woman of Samaria, Christ and the Angel of Resurrection (now in Loudoun cemetery), and the bronze statue Love, reconciled with Death in Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore.
According to artcyclopedia.com and askart.com, Rinehart's sculptures, neoclassical in style and mostly of human figures, are in public collections such as those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City), the National Gallery of Art, (Washington, DC), the Walters Art Museum (Baltimore), the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , the Brooklyn Museum of Art (New York City), the Carnegie Museum (Pittsburgh), and Ohio's Columbus Museum of Art, among others. According to the website of the Carnegie Museum, Rinehart "is considered the last important American sculptor to work in the classical style."
Rinehart was financially successful in his lifetime, executing many commissions for wealthy and cultured clients. American patrons often traveled to Italy to meet Rinehart and plan projects for their estates back in America. Rinehart's most important patron and sponsor was William T. Walters, founder of Baltimore's Walters Art Gallery (now the Walters Art Museum).
William Henry Rinehart left his estate in trust for the teaching of sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art. In his name, MICA established the Rinehart School of Sculpture and a Rinehart fellowship. The Rinehart School's alumni would one day include the estimable Hans Schuler, born the year Rinehart died.
Rinehart is buried in Baltimore's renowned Greenmount Cemetery.
See also
Articles
Books
- Davenport, Ray, (Ventura, California, 2005) ISSN 1540-1553;
- Ross, Marvin C. Walters Art Gallery; Johns Hopkins University; Peabody Institute. (Baltimore: Trustees of the Peabody Institute and the Walters Art Gallery, 1948)
- Rusk, William Sener. (Baltimore, Md., N.T.A. Munder, 1939)
- Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889
External links
- at the Metropolitan Museum of Art [includes IMAGES of some of Rinehart's works in the museum's collection]
- [features links to many IMAGES of the sculptures at museums and public collections]
- [includes an IMAGE]
- , Sothebys, New York, 24 May 2006, with COLOR IMAGE
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