Samuel Rogers' Italy was the inspiration for this artist's "Ginevra," while John Milton inspired his "Il Penseroso."  He began his career making wax figures of characters from Dante's Inferno and moved to sculpting busts of such patrons as Jacob Burnett and Nicholas Longworth, the latter of whom he 
Samuel Rogers' Italy was the inspiration for this artist's "Ginevra," while John Milton inspired his "Il Penseroso."  He began his career making wax figures of characters from Dante's Inferno and moved to sculpting busts of such patrons as Jacob Burnett and Nicholas Longworth, the latter of whom he paid tribute to with his Eve Disconsolate.  The only male nude sculpted by this man was one of a conch-shell holding child, the Fisher Boy, while his female sculptures include The Last of the Tribes, a rendition of an Indian girl, and California, an allegorical take on the Gold Rush.  However, his masterpiece was an adaptation of the Venus di Medici showing a nude woman holding a cross and chained to a post.  FTP, identify this American neoclassical sculptor of the Greek Slave.
Samuel Rogers' Italy was the inspiration for this artist's "Ginevra," while John Milton inspired his "Il Penseroso."  
Hiram Powers