Thomas Waldo Story (December 9, 1854 – October 23, 1915) was an American sculptor, art critic, poet and literary editor, living for most of his life in Rome, Italy.
[2] While his parents lived in Rome, Waldo was educated in England at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford.
Afterwards, he moved to Rome himself where he shared a studio with his father and, after the latter's death in 1895, took over his lease of an apartment in the Palazzo Barberini.
[4] In 1912, he was married for a second time to opera singer Bessie Pickens Abott.
[5] Waldo Story frequently stayed in England where he was friends with James Abbott McNeill Whistler.