Sixth version, acquired by John F. Bound, after 1884

In 1884, while The Greek Slave was on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was reported that E. W. Stoughton’s widow, Mary Fiske Stoughton (née Bound), was offering the statue for sale at $10,000. In a letter dated January 19, 1882, her son, the historian John Fiske, noted that she needed the money from the sale to buy a new home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, following her husband’s death.[1] Richard P. Wunder states that the statue was sold to Mrs. Stoughton’s brother, John Fiske Bound (1819–1900), but so far the details of the sale have not been traced.[2]

^{[1] Ethel F. Fisk, ed., Letters of John Fiske (New York: Macmillan Company, 1940), 470–72.}

^{[2] Richard P. Wunder, Hiram Powers: Vermont Sculptor, 1805–1873 (Newark: University of Delaware Press), 2:166.}

Related Media

“Personalities,” Independent Journal, February 14, 1884, 10. “Personalities,” Independent Journal, February 14, 1884, 10.

“The Greek Slave,” Art Amateur, March 1884, 89. “The Greek Slave,” Art Amateur, March 1884, 89.