Biografie von Florence FREEMAN (1825-1876)

Birth place: Boston

Profession: Sculptor

Studied: Richard S. Greenough, before 1861; Hiram Powers, Florence, Italy

Comments: In 1861 Freeman went to Italy with the actress Charlotte Cushman. After a year's study in Florence, she established a studio in Rome, joining the community of women sculptors that flourished in that city. She specialized in bas-reliefs and chimney-pieces.

Sources: G&W; G&W (assigns 1836 as birthdate and deathdate as sometime after 1876); Clement and Hutton; CAB; Thieme-Becker; Art Journal (1866), 177. More recently, see Rubinstein American Women Artists, 88 (assigns 1825 as birthdate and 1876 as deathdate).