Horatio Greenough was an American sculptor best known for his United States government commissions The Rescue (1837–50) and George Washington (1840).
Horatio Greenough painted by Rembrandt Peale, 1829
Horatio Greenough, 1852, albumen print after a daguerreotype by John Adams Whipple, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC
Horatio Greenough's statue of George Washington, photograph by Alfred Cheney Johnston c. 1899
George Washington (1840)
The Rescue (1837–1850) is a large marble sculpture group which was assembled in front of the east façade of the United States Capitol building and exhibited there from 1853 until 1958, when it was removed and never restored. The sculptural ensemble was created by sculptor Horatio Greenough (1805–1852) who had previously been commissioned by the U.S. government to create a massive sculpture, George Washington (1832–1841) for the Capitol rotunda, also now removed from that site.
The Rescue (sculpture)
Both Discovery (left) and Rescue (right) are visible in this photograph of Abraham Lincoln's 1861 first inauguration.
A lithograph based on the statue.
The dog from The Rescue displayed at Middlebury College Museum of Art in 1999
