Thomas Waldo Story (December 9, 1854 – October 23, 1915) was an American sculptor, art critic, poet and literary editor, living for most of his life in Rome, Italy.
Life
Central figures in the Fountain of Love, Cliveden, sculpted by Story
While his parents lived in Rome, Waldo was educated in England at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford. Afterwards, he moved to Rome himself where he shared a studio with his father and, after the latter's death in 1895, took over his lease of an apartment in the Palazzo Barberini.[3]
In 1883 Waldo Story married Ada Maud Broadwood (1856-1932), the eldest child of Thomas Capel Broadwood and Mary Davidson Hennin.[4] In 1912, he was married for a second time to opera singerBessie Pickens Abott.[5]
^Ada Broadwood's paternal grandparents were James Shudi Broadwood and Margaret Schaw Stewart, her maternal grandparents were Alfred Hennin, an American lawyer and jurist in New Orleans, and Ann Maria Davison. Ada Maud Broadwood's great grandfather was John Broadwood who founded the London firm of John Broadwood and Sons, maker of pianofortes, with Burkat Shudi.
^"Sculptor Story". New York Times. October 25, 1915. Archived from the original on October 24, 2012. Retrieved December 6, 2009. Thomas Waldo Story, sculptor of wide renown and husband of Bessie Abott, the American opera singer, who died Saturday morning at his home, No. 133 East Sixtieth street, New York, was 50 years old. He leaves his first wife and second wife and two daughters.
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