in Washington, D.C., the scientist who served as the Smithsonian Institution's first Secretary. His works Libyan Sibyl, Medea and Cleopatra are on display at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA. Story died at Vallombrosa Abbey, Italy, a place he was sentimentally attached to and which he chronicled in an informal travel journal, Vallombrosa in 1881. He is buried with his wife, Emelyn Story, in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome, under a statue of his own design, Angel of Grief. A 1903 posthumous biography of Wetmore (and his circle), entitled William Wetmore Story and His Friends, was penned by Henry James. Family His children also pursued artistic careers: Thomas Waldo Story (1854–1915) became a sculptor; Julian Russell Story (1857–1919) was a successful portrait painter; and Edith Marion (1844–1907), the Marchesa Peruzzi de' Medici, became a writer. Selected works Statue of George Peabody next to the Royal Exchange, London, 1869. A replica, erected in 1890, stands next to the Peabody Institute, Mount Vernon Park, Baltimore, Maryland. Joseph Henry Memorial, Washington D.C., 1883 Chief Justice John Marshall Memorial, Washington D.C., 1884 Angel of Grief, 1894, monument to his dead wife. Statue of Joseph Story, his father, in Harvard Law School's Langdell Hall Selected writings Life and Letters of Joseph Story, 1851 (A collection of contemporary observations of Rome.) Proportions of the Human Figure, London, 1864 Roba di Roma Volume 2. https://archive.org/details/robadiroma02stor Fiammetta, 1885 (a novel) Conversations in a Studio, Boston, 1890 Excursions in Art and Letters, Boston, 1891 His poems were collected in two volumes in 1885. Among the longer are “A Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem” (a rehabilitation of Judas Iscariot), "A Jewish Rabbi in Rome," Tragedy of Nero” (1872) and "Ginevra di Siena." The last named, with "Cleopatra," was included in his Graffiti d'Italia, a collection published in 1868. Images Footnotes Further reading Phillips, Mary E., Reminiscences of William Wetmore Story: The American Sculptor and Author, Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Company, 1897. James, Henry, William Wetmore Story and his Friends: From Letters, Diaries, and Recollections. In two volumes. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1903-1904. Vol. 1 | Vol. 2 Thomas Waldo Story (1855–1915) William W. Story, 'Vallombrosa', Firenze: Clinamen, 2002. The Lure of Italy. American Artists and the Italian Experience, ed. by Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1992, pp. 19, 25, 27, 46, 58, 63- 64 and passim. P. Coen, Il recupero del Rinascimento: