Among the most prolific American sculptors of the nineteenth century, Chauncey Bradley Ives worked in Rome from 1851 until his death in 1894. Rome was a center for marble sculpture production in the 1800s, and art studios catered to the many well-to-do American travelers looking to take home artful mementos while on the Grand Tour. Sculpture was considered a fashionable acquisition, and Ives’s classically themed works appealed to conservative mid-century American tastes.