Baron Marochetti
Baron Pietro Carlo Giovanni Battista Marochetti (1805 – 1867) was an Italian-born French artist who settled in Britain in 1848, after which he established himself as the most successful and sought-after sculptor in the country. He completed numerous public sculptures, usually in the neo-classical style, plus reliefs, memorials and large equestrian monuments in bronze and marble eventually receiving several commissions from Queen Victoria herself.
One of the greatest artists of the Victorian age, his work was in demand right across Europe and he produced memorials throughout the British Empire including a Crimean War Memorial in Istanbul and a Memorial commemorating the Cawnpore Massacre in India. Perhaps his best-known works are the bronze lions in Trafalgar Square, on which he collaborated with the painter Edwin Landseer, and his magisterial equestrian statue of Richard the Lionheart, which is located in front of the Palace of Westminster in central London.
And then there’s his particularly fine equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington in Glasgow (the former City of Culture), which is usually crowned with a plastic traffic cone.
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