[1] He traveled to Europe in 1882,[2] and studied in Florence in the studio of Fortunato Galli,[1] where he became friends with the young Bernard Berenson.

[3] Although he never formally enrolled at the Ecole de Beaux-Arts, he audited classes there in autumn 1883, and studied briefly in the Paris studio of sculptor Antonin Mercié.

[1] He appeared in a New York City production of David Copperfield,[2] and moved to Boston, where he supported himself by giving dramatic readings of Shakespeare and the Romantic poets.

[5] For months before and after that dedication, Partridge's full-size plaster model of Hamilton was on exhibition at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

[5] The bronze statue stood in Brooklyn until 1936, when it was relocated to The Grange, Hamilton's country house in northern Manhattan.

Partridge was commissioned in 1896 to create a bronze memorial tablet commemorating that bequest for Smithson's gravesite in Genoa, Italy.

[11] Partridge initially made two casts of the bronze tablet, one for the gravesite and the other for the nearby Protestant Chapel of the Holy Spirit.

[12] Upon learning that the Genoa cemetery was to be destroyed for the expansion of an adjacent quarry, Alexander Graham Bell, a member of the Smithsonian's Board of Regents, proposed that Smithson's remains be brought to the United States.

[13] In 1904, Smithson's remains and grave monument were relocated to the Crypt of the Smithsonian's Castle Building in Washington, D.C.[13] The 1900 marble copy of Partridge's tablet was part of that move.

Her reaction inspired a posthumous replica to be cast, which was presented by the Governor of Virginia as a gift to the British people.

Dedicated on October 5, 1958, the bronze replica was installed outside St. George's, Gravesend, the English church in which Pocahontas had been interred in 1617.

[17] Partridge lectured at the National Social Science Association, the Concord School of Philosophy, and the Brooklyn Institute.

Partridge's published writings include articles on aesthetics, books on art history, and a manual on sculpting.