The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Rinehart, William Henry

RINEHART, William Henry, American sculptor: b. Carroll County, Md., 13 Sept. 1825; d. Rome, Italy, 28 Oct. 1874. He apprenticed himself at 21 to a marble-worker of Baltimore, and 10 years later went to Italy where he remained two years. On his return to Baltimore he executed several busts and a fountain for the United States general post office. He did not stay long in the United States, though his success as a sculptor met with much appreciation here, but established himself in Rome in 1858. Among his best-known works are the reliefs ʿNightʾ and ʿMorningʾ; his highly poetic and well-wrought ʿClytieʾ and ʿLove Reconciles with Deathʾ; ʿLatona and her Childrenʾ; ʿAntigoneʾ; ʿAtlantaʾ and ʿEndymion.ʾ He finished the bronze doors for the national Capitol, a work bequeathed to him by Crawford.