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tling in Florence, where he worked and lived for many years. He returned 
to America in 1851. The statue of Washington in the National Gallery of 
Art, and the group called “The Rescue” in the National Capitol, are 
among the better known of his works. Others that may be mentioned are 
“Medora,” “Guardian Angel and Child,” “Chanting Cherubs,” and busts 
of Fenimore Cooper, Lafayette, Francis Alexander and John Quincy 
Adams. The “Chanting Cherubs,” executed for Cooper, is said to have 
been the first original piece of marble sculpture cut by an American. 
STATUE OF WASHINGTON. 
Marble. Height, 11 ft. 4 in.; base, 5 ft. 6 in. by 8 ft. 6 in. 
Transferred to the custody of the Smithsonian Institution 
by joint resolution of Congress approved May 22, 1908. 
Hamdy Bey, Osman. 
A Turkish statesman, scholar and painter, son of Edhem Pasha, bom in 
Constantinople in 1842 and deceased in 1910. He was Governor of Bagdad 
in 1868-70, a delegate to the Vienna Exposition in 1873, General Secretary 
of Foreign Affairs, and Governor of Pera. Distinguished for his researches 
in archeology, he was the creator of the Imperial Museum at Stambul, and 
its director from 1882. In painting he gained reputation for his rendering 
of oriental interiors, and was the founder of a Turkish school of the fine 
arts which is not limited in its courses by the provisions of the Koran. He 
edited with Reinach La nicropole royale de Sidon (1892-93), and at his own 
expense erected a Greek building in Constantinople for the sarcophagi 
from the Sidon Necropolis. He exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy 
in London and elsewhere. 
TOMB OF “MAHOMET THE GENTLEMAN” AT BROUSSA. 
Signed and dated, 1884. On canvas, 20% H., 37X W. 
Bequest of Mrs. Elizabeth C. Hobson, of Washington, for 
whom it was painted, 1912. 
Hasbrouck, Du Bois Fenelon. 
Bom, Pine Hill, N. Y., i860. Landscape painter. Studio, Stamford, 
N. Y. 
AUTUMN LANDSCAPE. 
Signed and dated, 1886. On canvas, 23^ H., 16 W. 
Presented by Mr. Frederic Fairchild Sherman, of New York, 
in memory of his wife, Eloise Lee Sherman, 1913. 
