William Henry Rinehart

William Henry Rinehart studied at Maryland Institute College of Art. The field of work recorded is art of sculpture. Works named in the authority record are Roger B. Work by William Henry Rinehart is recorded in the collections of Philadelphia Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Smithsonian American Art Museum.

• Name — William Henry Rinehart • Born — 13 September 1825 • Birthplace — Union Bridge, Maryland, U.S. • Died — 28 October 1874 • Place of death — Rome, Italy • Resting Place — Green Mount Cemetery Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. • Relatives — David Rinehart (brother) • Known for — Sculpture • Training — Maryland Institute College of Art

The son of and Mary (Snader) Rinehart (1797–1865), William Henry Rinehart was born in Union Bridge, Maryland. His brother was David Rinehart. He attended school until he was nearly eighteen. He then began to work on his father's farm, but also became the assistant of a stone-cutter in the neighborhood. In 1844 he began an apprenticeship in the stone-yard of Baughman and Bevan on the site of what is now the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, and studied sculpture at what is now called the Maryland Institute College of Art. In 1855 Rinehart went to Italy to continue his studies. While there he executed two bas-reliefs in marble, Morning and Evening. On his return, two years later, he opened a studio in Baltimore, where he executed numerous busts, a fountain-figure for the main U.S. Post Office in Washington, DC; and two bronze figures, Backwoodsman and Indian, flanking the clock in the House of Representatives Chamber of the U.S. Capitol. In 1858 he settled in Rome where he would live the rest of his life, except for trips back to the United States in 1866 and 1872. Rinehart's burial was funded by his friends William Thompson Walters and Benjamin Franklin Newcomer and he was buried at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore.

• Bas-reliefs of Morning and Evening (c. 1856), plaster, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. • Backwoodsman and Indian (1857), bronze, Monumental Clock, House of Representatives Chamber, U.S. Capitol. Now exhibited in the Capitol crypt. • Sleeping Children (1859), marble, Smithsonian American Art Museum. including one at the tomb of Hugh Sisson ("Marble King of Baltimore"), Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland. • Woman of Samaria (1859–1862), marble, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland. • Leander (c. 1859), marble, Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey. Marble replica (c. 1870) at Chrysler Museum of Art. • Bust of Mrs. William T. Walters (1862), marble, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland. • Hero (modeled 1866), plaster, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. • Antigone Pouring a Libation over the Corpse of Her Brother Polynices (modeled 1867–1870), plaster, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Marble (1870) at Metropolitan Museum of Art. • Chief Justice Roger B. Taney (1867–1872), bronze, Maryland State House, Annapolis, Maryland. Bronze replica (1872) at Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, Maryland. Both removed in 2017. • Endymion (1868–1874), plaster, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Marble (c. 1874-1875) at National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Bronze at Rinehart's grave in Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland. • Clytie (1872), marble, Baltimore Museum of Art. Marble (1872) at Metropolitan Museum of Art. • Latona and Her Children – Apollo and Diana (modeled c. 1870–1872), plaster, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Marble replica (1874) at Metropolitan Museum of Art. • Atalanta (1874), marble, Baltimore Museum of Art. • Illustration — Morning (c. 1856), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. • Illustration — Rinehart's drawing for the Monumental Clock (1858), House of Representatives Chamber, U.S. Capitol. • Illustration — Sleeping Children (1859, this example 1869), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. • Illustration — Woman of Samaria (1859–1862), Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland • Illustration — Thetis (1861), Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland. • Illustration — Bust of Mrs. William T. Walters (1862), Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland. • Illustration — Hero (1866), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. • Illustration — Chief Justice Roger B. Taney (1867–72), Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, Maryland. • Illustration — Clytie (1872), Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland. • Illustration — Latona and Her Children - Apollo and Diana (1871–74), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) William Henry Rinehart (1825–1874) (New York: The Museum, ©1999–©2001) • Stebbins, Theodore E. William Henry Rinehart (Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1992)