Horatio Greenough Curtis (1844-1922)

He was born in Boston and was named for his mother's celebrated brother, the sculptor Horatio Greenough. He was prepared for college at the Institution Stillig-Bellerive in Vevey, Switzerland, before entering Harvard where he was a member of the Hasty Pudding Club. He became a partner in the mercantile firm of J. Gardner Curtis & Co., 78 Devonshire Street, Boston, importers of East India goods. He later became President of the old Boston National Bank and Vice-President of the Merchant's National Bank. As an amateur artist, he frequently travelled through Europe and he was married at Paris in 1871 to Annie, daughter of Benjamin Robert Winthrop and sister of the New York society leader and member of the "Four Hundred," Egerton L. Winthrop. They continued to spend much of their time in Europe, notably at Horatio's brother's fabled home in Venice, the Palazzo Barbaro. He died without children.