Whitney, Anne (1821–1915)

US sculptor and poet. She utilized her abolitionist and suffragist beliefs and drew on her experiences from travelling to such European countries as Italy in her sculptures, as in Roma (1869). Whitney published poetry (1847–59), then studied anatomy with William Rimmer in Boston, Massachusetts (1862–64). She opened a studio there in 1871. Whitney was born in Watertown, Massachusetts. She worked on her sculptures into her early eighties