Edward (Edouard) Lanteri, (1848-1917), was born in France. He trained in Paris and came to London in 1872 to work as a studio assistant to Joseph Edgar Boehm. From 1880, he taught sculpture at the South Kensington Art Schools (later the Royal College of Art) where he was Professor of Modelling from 1900 to 1910. This bronze sculpture depicts Sir William Blake Richmond (1842-1921), a painter and sculptor and influential figure in the early Arts and Crafts Movement. In 1878, Richmond succeeded his friend and mentor John Ruskin as the Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford. Richmond was elected to the Royal Academy in 1895, where he served as Professor of Painting from 1895 to 1899 and from 1909 to 1911, he continued to exhibit with the Academy until 1916 and was elected Senior RA at the Academy in 1920.
The model for this bronze is also in the Gallery’s collection, se BrS27.
