Richard Saltonstall Greenough

Richard Saltonstall Greenough (April 19, 1819 – 1904) was an American sculptor and younger brother to Neoclassical sculptor Horatio Greenough.

Greenough was born in Boston, Massachusetts, He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1855. Greenough died in Rome in 1904. He is buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome.

Greenough's best-known work is probably a statue of Benjamin Franklin which stood in front of the Old City Hall (Boston). The statue on Boston's Freedom Trail, fell from its ten-foot pedestal in the early summer of 2016, but sustained almost no damage and is currently being repaired.

Selected works 1853 Shepard Boy and Eagle, bronze, Boston Athenaeum 1856 Statue of Benjamin Franklin, bronze, Old City Hall (Boston) 1856 John Winthrop (1588–1649), marble, Memorial Hall, Harvard University 1860 Bust of George Hayward (1791–1863), marble, Memorial Hall, Harvard University 1863 Carthaginian Girl, marble, Boston Athenaeum 1860-1880 Mary Magdalene, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York 1873 John Winthrop, bronze, Boston, Massachusetts 1876 John Winthrop, marble, United States Capitol TBD Alma Mater commemorating Civil War dead, Boston Latin School