Patience Wright

Also known as Patience Lovell Wright

Patience Wright was a sculptor of wax figures, and the first recognized American-born sculptor. Wright is recorded as creating at least 55 works; only her full-length figure of Lord Chatham survives.

Occupation: sculptor, artist, wax former, miniaturist
Citizenship: United States
Born: 1725
Died: March 23, 1786, March 25, 1786

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Joseph Wrightspouse Phoebe Hoppnerchild Joseph Wrightchild Elizabeth “Betsy” Lovell Wrightchild Patience Lovellmother Rachel Lovell Wellssibling

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Patience Lovell Wright (1725 – March 23, 1786) was a sculptor of wax figures, and the first recognized American-born sculptor. Biography Early life Patience Lovell was born at Oyster Bay, New York, into a Quaker farm family with a vegetarian diet. The family moved to Bordentown, New Jersey when Patience was four years old. At age 16 she left the family home and moved to Philadelphia, where in 1748 she married Joseph Wright, a barrelmaker who was many years her senior. She often amused herself and her children by molding faces out of putty, bread dough, and wax.

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Also known as Patience Lovell Wright

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