[1] He submitted a bas relief of Evander retrieves the body of Pallas for a competition, and was awarded a stipend by the government to study at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence.
Among his first mature works are the Martyrdom of four saints, found in the main altar of the Lombard church of Carrara.
Then he sculpted After the Bath, a nude female statua exhibited at the Accademia Fiorentina, where it was awarded a gold medal.
For the Soldiers' National Monument in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA he helped design the five larger than life statues of History, War, Abundance, Industry, and Victory that are around the base of a tall granite column.
One of his notable work was a marble rood screen (c. 1899) in the Cathedral of St. Patrick, in Armagh.