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Hoxie, Vinnie Ream. 
This well-known sculptor of Washington, who became the wife of Lieut. 
(Brig. Gen.) Richard Leveridge Hoxie, U. S. Army, on May 28, 1878, 
was bom in Madison, Wis., Sept. 25, 1847, and died in Washington, Nov. 
20, 1914. She studied under Bonnat in Paris, and with Majoli in Rome. 
Her statues of Abraham Lincoln, in the rotunda of the Capitol, and Admiral 
Farragut, standing in Farragut Square, Washington, were executed under 
commissions from Congress. Among her other productions were many 
portrait busts and medallions of prominent Americans and foreigners, 
and a number of ideal statues. 
STATUE OF THE GODDESS SAPPHO, TYPIFYING THE MUSE 
OF POETRY. 
Marble. Height, 5 ft. 6 in.; base, 1 ft. 9 in. by 1 ft. 11 % in. 
Modeled by Vinnie Ream between 1865 and 1870. Gift 
of Brig. Gen. Richard L. Hoxie, U. S. Army (retired), 1915. 
Isham, Samuel. 
Born, New York, May 12, 1855; died, Easthampton, Long Island, N. Y., 
June 12, 1914. Pupil of Julian Academy, Paris, under Jacquesson de la 
Chevreuse, Boulanger and Lefebvre. He exhibited at Paris Salons and 
at most of the larger American exhibitions; was a member of the jury of 
the Pan-Amer. Exp., Buffalo, 1901, and received a silver medal at the 
St. Louis Exp., 1904. He was an Associate, 1900, and an Academician, 
1906, of the Nat. Acad. Design; and held membership in the N. Y. Water 
Color Club, N. Y. Arch. League, and the Nat. Inst. Arts and Letters. 
Both painter and writer, having been the author of “A History of American 
Painting,” 1905. 
WOODED LANDSCAPE. 
On canvas, 23^ H., 29 W. 
Gift from the estate of Samuel Isham, in accordance with 
the wishes of the artist, 1914. 
Johnson, Eastman. 
This genre and portrait painter was born at Lovell, Me., July 29, 1824, 
and died in New York, Apr. 5, 1906. He studied in Diisseldorf, Rome, 
Paris and The Hague, and settled in New York in i860, becoming a member 
of the National Academy of Design the same year. He received a bronze 
and a silver medal at the Paris Expositions of 1889 and 1900, respectively; 
and gold medals at the Pan-Amer. Exp., Buffalo, 1901, and the St. Louis 
Exp., 1904. 
