Waldo Story Explained
| Waldo Story |
| Birth Name: | Thomas Waldo Story |
| Birth Date: | 9 December 1854 |
| Birth Place: | Paris, France |
| Death Place: | New York, New York |
| Occupation: | Artist, writer |
| Father: | William Wetmore Story |
Thomas Waldo Story (December 9, 1854 – October 23, 1915) was an American sculptor, art critic, poet and literary editor, living for most of his life in Rome, Italy.
Life
Story was born in Paris in 1854 to the sculptor William Wetmore Story,[1] son of early Supreme Court justice Joseph Story.[2]
While his parents lived in Rome, Waldo was educated in England at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford. Afterwards, he moved to Rome himself where he shared a studio with his father and, after the latter's death in 1895, took over his lease of an apartment in the Palazzo Barberini.[3]
In 1883 Waldo Story married Ada Maud Broadwood (1856-1932), the eldest child of Thomas Capel Broadwood and Mary Davidson Hennin.[4] In 1912, he was married for a second time to opera singer Bessie Pickens Abott.[5]
Waldo Story frequently stayed in England where he was friends with James Abbott McNeill Whistler.[6] He is best known for his Fountain of Love in the grounds of Cliveden, Buckinghamshire.[7]
He died at his home in New York City in 1915.[8]
Notes and References
- Book: American Art Annual, Volume 13 . MacMillan Company . Levy, Florence Nightingale . 1917 . 319.
- Mary E. Phillips, Reminiscences of William Wetmore Story, Chicago, 1897, p. 118; The Browning's Correspondence, online edition, William Wetmore Story.
- https://archive.org/details/jstor-25588717/page/n1 Waldo Story's obituary
- Ada Broadwood's paternal grandparents were James Shudi Broadwood and Margaret Schaw Stewart, her maternal grandparents were Alfred Hennin, an American lawyer and jurist in New Orleans, and Ann Maria Davison. Ada Maud Broadwood's great grandfather was John Broadwood who founded the London firm of John Broadwood and Sons, maker of pianofortes, with Burkat Shudi.
- News: Bessie Abott Wed To T. Waldo Story. Famous American Opera Singer Married Sculptor Some Time Ago in Europe. . . September 27, 1912 . 2009-12-06 .
- https://web.archive.org/web/20050323132214/http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/biog/Stor_W.htm Biography of Story
- Web site: Thomas Waldo Story. Jan's & Company. 8 February 2014.
- News: Sculptor Story . https://web.archive.org/web/20121024060437/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/774458672.html?dids=774458672:774458672&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Oct+25,+1915&author=&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=SCULPTOR+STORY+HAD+INTERESTING+CAREER&pqatl=google . dead . October 24, 2012 . Thomas Waldo Story, sculptor of wide renown and husband of Bessie Abott, the American opera singer, who died Saturday morning at his home, No. 133 East Sixtieth street, New York, was 50 years old. He leaves his first wife and second wife and two daughters. . . October 25, 1915 . 2009-12-06 .
