Waldo 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.

Waldo Story
Born	Thomas Waldo Story (1854-12-09)December 9, 1854 Paris, France
Died	October 23, 1915(1915-10-23) (aged 60) New York, New York
Occupation(s)	Artist, writer
Spouses	Ada Maud Broadwood ​ (m. 1883)​ Bessie Abott ​ (m. 1912)​
Father	William Wetmore Story

Life

Central figures in the Fountain of Love, Cliveden, sculpted by Story

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]

Gallery

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  Mrs. Ada Maud Story by John Singer Sargent, 1883
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  Fountain of Love
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  Sculpture by Thomas Waldo Story at the Ascott House, Buckinghamshire