Haseltine was born in Rome, the son of the American landscape painter William Stanley Haseltine who was associated with the Hudson River School and Luminism.
10 Facts About Herbert Haseltine
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Herbert Haseltine studied at Harvard University and, after graduating in 1899, Haseltine attended Munich Academy in Germany to study drawing and then to the Academie Julian in Paris, France where he studied painting.
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Herbert Haseltine moved to the United States where he remained until 1947, at which time he returned to France.
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Herbert Haseltine sculpted a variety of animals but is best known for his equestrian sculptures, most notably the 1934 life-size statue of the thoroughbred race horse Man o' War at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky and "George Washington on Horseback", Gilded bronze statue at the Washington National Cathedral made in 1959.
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Herbert Haseltine traveled to India, where he made an oversized statue of one of the ancestors of the Maharaja of Nawanagar, Jam Shri Rawalji in 1933.
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Herbert Haseltine replicated many of his large works in table-top sizes.
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The author of a number of books on animalier art, Herbert Haseltine was well connected in American upper class society and did a three-year project to create a work for heiress Barbara Hutton.
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Herbert Haseltine had a lot of contacts to highest Russian Royalty.
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Herbert Haseltine's wife, the former Madeleine Keith, was born in England and died in 1979 in Paris.
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Herbert Haseltine was buried at the Protestant Cemetery Caius Cestius in Rome, where are the graves of his parents, of his brothers Stanley Lane, Charles Marshall and his sister Mildred princess Rospigliosi.