Once '' Free '' was completed , Cadwalader-Guild moved abroad in the mid-1880s , exhibiting and working in multiple cities . She placed '' Free '' in her London studio , where it was well-received by critics . She traveled and study the masters of art and opened studios in cities with strong art communities , including London , Berlin , Italy , and Frankfurt , to increase the profitability of her travels . While in Europe , she produced pieces that were well-received and brought her recognition including marble and bronze busts of British Prime Minister William Gladstone , who contacted her for in-person sittings , something he had not done with any other sculptor . She returned to the United States at an unknown date to make a bust of President McKinley at the encouragement of then-United States Ambassador Andrew White . Cadwalader-Guild had long wanted to create a study of her fellow Ohioan . However , McKinley did not arrive to the scheduled sittings in the summer due to the campaign of 1900 . She returned to Berlin and came back to the United States the following summer to meet McKinley in Canton , Ohio where he was staying . Again McKinley was too busy to pose for sittings but promised to sit for her when he returned to Washington D.C. in October . However , McKinley was assassinated in September 1901 and Cadwalader-Guild made the bust from photographs . Congress purchased the bust for $ 2,000 . It was placed in the President 's Room in the Capitol and moved to the Senate Marble Room in 2000 . Little is known of Cadwalader-Guild 's death but that it occurred around 1911 , and in the United States
McKinley was assassinated in September 1901
Assassination of William McKinley
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