Background
He was born in New Haven, Connecticut to James Osgood and Elizabeth Badger.
He was born in New Haven, Connecticut to James Osgood and Elizabeth Badger.
He studied painting in Boston, Massachusetts.
Upon returning to America he settled in New York City, where he was made an associate of the National Academy of Design. In 1849 he went to California where he stayed nearly a year, prospecting for gold and painting portraits in San Francisco. Osgood designed her memorial at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she was buried.
Inspired by her poem "The Hand That Swept the Sounding Lyre", Osgood designed a 15-foot memorial: a white marble base topped by a bronze lyre crowned by a laurel wreath.
Frances Sargent Osgood
Edgar Allan Poe
Davy Crockett
John Sutter
Henry Clay
Alice Cary
Mary Boykin Chesnut
Thomas Campbell
Mary East. Hewitt
Caroline East. South. Norton.
Member National Academy of Design.
Married Frances South. Locke, 1835 (deceased. Married a 2d time.