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= Euphrosyne Stillman = Euphrosyne "Effie" Stillman (January 7, 1872—August 18, 1911) was an Anglo-American sculptor who specialized in small-scale bronze statuettes and medals. She completed one monumental sculpture, which forms part of the public memorial for United States' senator Thomas F. Bayard in Wilmington, Delaware. She exhibited regularly at the New Gallery from 1892 to 1907, and presented work at the Royal Academy in 1897.

Early Life and Training
Euphrosyne Stillman was the daughter of the Anglo-Greek Pre-Raphaelite artist Marie Spartali Stillman and the American journalist and artist William James Stillman. Stillman posed for her mother as a child and first studied art under the guidance of Charles Fairfax Murray, a pupil of Edward Burne-Jones. Later, from 1889 to 1893, she studied sculpture under Charles Desvergnes in Rome. Stillman worked in London and Rome, and periodically shared a studio in Chelsea with her half-sister Lisa Stillman, also an artist. A number of the early medallions produced by Stillman feature portraits of family members, including her father and grandfather, and family friends, including Anne Thackeray Ritchie and Irene Ionides.

Work
Stillman produced over thirty medals, and several statuettes over the course of her career. Her subjects included the artists Marie Spartali Stillman (exhibited 1902), Lisa Stillman (1902), the writer Charles Eliot Norton (1899), the United States' senator and ambassador to Great Britain Thomas F. Bayard (1897). She also produced a bust of Bayard for the gilt loving cup presented to the ambassador by the American Society in London in 1897. Stillman's work forms part of the collection at the British Museum and the Delaware Art Museum. Her only life-size sculpture was produced for the memorial for Thomas F. Bayard in Wilmington, Delaware. Samuel Bancroft, an American collector of Pre-Raphaelite art, aided in Stillman's pursuit of this commission.