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 American Sculpture. 295 Edward Sheffield Bartholomew (1822—1858) began life as a painter, but finding that he was colour-blind, turned his attention to sculpture. He went to Rome, where his model of Blind Homer made him celebrated. His Eve Repentant is his best work. He lived most of his life in Italy, where he died young. Benjamin Akers (1825 — 1861) lived chiefly in Rome, where he executed many ideal works of much beauty. The Lost Pearl Diver and Saint Elizabeth of Hungary are among his most celebrated works. Of living American sculptors, whom we shall abstain from criticising, we may first name W. W. Story, the sculptor of Cleopatra, the Sibyl, the statue of Peabody, near the Royal Exchange, London, and many other cele- brated works — and Randolph Rogers, the author of the bronze doors of the Capitol at Washington, Rinehart, Meade, Gould, Thompson, and Harriet Hosmer, all of whom generally reside in Rome or Florence ; and O' Donovan, Hartley, St. Gaudens, Ward, and Palmer.