Baron Marochetti

Baron Carlo Marochetti            

34 Onslow Square

LONDON SW10

Erected by: English Heritage - April 2010

Lived Here: 1851-1867

Me (Helen Ross)

Carlos Marochetti
Blue Plaque

Carlo Marochetti was born on 4 January 1805. His first teachers were Francois Joseph Bosio and Antoine-Jean Gros in Paris.

He followed the French king Louis-Philippe into exile in the United Kingdom after the fall of the July Monarchy in 1848. From 1832 to 1848 he lived in France.

Baron Carlos Marochetti

He spent the greater part of his time from then until his death in London. He lived in Onslow Square, and had a large studio, and his own foundry, nearby in Sydney Mews. Among his chief works were statues of Queen Victoria, Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde (erected 1867 in Waterloo Place), and Richard the Lionheart. The equestrian statue of Richard the Lionheart was displayed in the Great Exhibition, and a bronze copy was made in 1860 to be displayed in front of the Palace of Westminster, where it has remained ever since.  He made many other famous statues which have been placed all over the world.  From 1864 he collaborated with Sir Edwin Landseer on the four bronze lions to be placed around the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, and cast them at his foundry.

Richard the Lionheart
Houses of Parliament

As a favourite sculptor of Queen Victoria, he was commissioned to make the seated figure of Prince Albert for the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens. However the first version was rejected by the architect of the monument, Sir George Gilbert Scott and Marochetti died before a satisfactory second version could be completed.

Marochetti was created a baron by the King of Sardinia and was also a chevalier of the Legion of Honour He was elected an associate of the Royal Academy 1861 and a full academician in 1866.