T. Waldo Story

• Name — Waldo Story • Birth Name — Thomas Waldo Story • Born — 9 December 1854 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 23 October 1915 • Place of death — New York, New York • Occupation — Artist, writer • Father — William Wetmore Story

• Illustration — Central figures in the Fountain of Love, Cliveden, sculpted by Story Story was born in Paris in 1854 to the sculptor William Wetmore Story, son of early Supreme Court justice Joseph 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. In 1883 Waldo Story married Ada Maud Broadwood (1856–1932), the eldest child of Thomas Capel Broadwood and Mary Davidson Hennin. In 1912, he was married for a second time to opera singer Bessie Pickens Abott. Waldo Story frequently stayed in England where he was friends with James Abbott McNeill Whistler. He is best known for his Fountain of Love in the grounds of Cliveden, Buckinghamshire. He died at his home in New York City in 1915.

• Illustration — Mrs. Ada Maud Story by John Singer Sargent, 1883 • Illustration — Fountain of Love • Illustration — Sculpture by Thomas Waldo Story at the Ascott House, Buckinghamshire