Sculptor. Harriet Hosmer, a 19th century American sculptor, created the "Tomb of Judith Falconnet," which was the first artwork by an American artist, male or female, permanently installed in a Roman Catholic Church. Located in The Basilica di Sant'Andrea delle Fratte in Rome, Italy, the marble tomb shows a graceful sculpture of a girl asleep on a sofa. Hosmer was raised Protestant, and it was unusual for a non-Catholic to receive a commission for a Catholic tomb, plus it was equally unusual for a woman to receive a lucrative funerary commission. This was the only tomb that Hosmer created. She was raised as a liberated woman after the death of her mother and three brothers from tuberculosis. Early in her life , she showed marked aptitude for sculpturing. To improve her sculpturing, she studied anatomy with her father, a physician, and afterwards studied anatomy at the St. Louis Medical College in Missouri. Later she was the first woman in an all-male anatomy class to receive a certificate. She then studied in Boston until 1852, when, with her father and friend Charlotte Cushman, she traveled to Rome. From 1853 to 1860, she was the pupil of the Welsh Neoclassical sculptor John Gibson. She lived in Rome until a few years before her death. In 1862 she exhibited in London what would become her best-known work, "Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, in Chains" created in 1859, which in the 21st century is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Among her works are "Daphne" and "Medusa" in 1853; "Puck" in 1855, which is a spirited and graceful conception that she copied for the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Hamilton, and others; "Oenone" in 1855, her first life-sized figure, now in the St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts; "Beatrice Cenci" in 1857, for the Mercantile Library of St. Louis; "A Sleeping Faun" in 1867, which is in Dublin, Ireland; "A Waking Faun"; a bronze statue of Thomas Hart Benton in 1868 for Lafayette Park, St. Louis; bronze gates for the Earl of Brownlow's art gallery at Ashridge Hall; a Siren fountain for Lady Marian Alford; a fountain for Central Park in New York City; a monument to Abraham Lincoln; and for the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, statues of the queen of Naples as the "Heroine of Gaëta," and "Queen Isabella of Spain." She never married and died in her hometown at the age of 77