Luella Varney Serrao (b. Varney) (1865-?) was born in Angola, New York, and died in an unknown location. She was a sculptor known for her portraits of notable Americans such as Susan B. Anthony, Julia Ward Howe, Theodore Roosevelt, and Mark Twain. Serrao studied at the Cleveland School of Art located in Cleveland, Ohio. Afterwards, she moved to Rome, Italy, where she earned a degree from the University of Rome. In Rome, she met Teodoro Serrao, an art critic and lawyer, whom she married in 1889. They lived in Rome until his death in 1907, when she returned to Cleveland. In 1885, Mary H. and Edward H. Collins, students of Eddy's, visited Rome, Italy, where they met Serrao. They commissioned portrait busts, and a few years later, Serrao became their student, attending one of their Christian Science classes in Ohio. Sometime later, Mary Collins, who had been impressed with the quality of Serrao's work, asked Eddy's consent to have a bust carved in Carrara marble made of her, to which Eddy agreed and sat for. Several reproductions were made by Serrao in 1890, one of which is in Longyear Museum in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and another of which is in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D. C. Eddy also commissioned Serrao to create an allegorical figure to symbolize Christian Science, however she later canceled it, due to concerns over the potential for idol worship. Serrao passed away sometime after April 1937.

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