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XII. American Sculpture. Our limits forbid us to devote more than a short space to the rising school of American sculptors, whose works have been exhibited from time to time at Paris, South Kensington, and elsewhere. American art sustained a severe loss in the early death of Thomas Crawford (1813 — 1857), a sculptor of high aspirations and great promise, who had for many years resided at Rome. His chief work was a monument to Washington, in course of erection at Richmond, much resembling in design Rauch's well-known monument to Frederick the Great. Of this important composition the central equestrian figure, with the statues of Jefferson, Lee, and Patrick Kerry, had been completed and cast in bronze at Munich at the time of the artist's death. The completion of the work was entrusted to Randolph Rogers, an American sculptor of considerable eminence. Hiram Powers (1805 — 1873), who lived many years in Florence, was well-known in England ; his Greek Slave was much admired in the Great Exhibition of 1851. His Eve after the Fall, and his portrait-statues of Benjamin Franklin, Webster, Washington, and others are amongst his best works. Horatio Greenough (1805 — 1852) is best known by the monument on Bunker's Hill, the elaborate group on the portico of the Capitol, and the colossal statue of Washing- ton. He lived for many years in Florence, and executed a number of ideal works.