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John Talbott Donoghue (1853 - July 1, 1903) was an American sculptor and artist, who achieved early fame thanks to promotion of his work by Oscar Wilde. Today he is known for a single work, "The Young Sophocles Leading the Chorus of Victory After the Battle of Salamis", which exists in both life-size and reduce bronze casts in several major U.S. collections. In his lifetime, Donoghue's work was highly regarded and included in important American and European exhibitions, but real financial success still eluded him. The great work of his career was to be a monumental marble winged figure for the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, on which he worked throughout the early 1890s, but the sculpture's colossal size and poor transportation planning left the finished work abandoned on route to Chicago from his studio in Rome. Although he received other commissions, Donoghue never recovered from this blow, and his artistic career struggled from one disappointment to another until finally he ended his life with a single self-inflicted gunshot in 1903.