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Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Baron Carlo Marochetti, 1805-1867, sculptor, lived here, 1851-1867.
English Heritage
SW7, Onslow Square, 34
The mews at the back of the property contained his studio and foundry, where he cast, amongst other works, Landseer's bronze lions for the foot of Nelson's Column. This was a complicated transaction - see Your Archives for the details.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Baron Carlo Marochetti
Born Turin. Lived in France most of his life but escaped to London in 1848. B...
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Baron Carlo Marochetti
{Plaque beneath a statue of a bear}Over a hundred years ago on what was then ...
29 & 30 College StreetPresented to the Worshipful Company of Innholders b...
J.L. Garvin, C.H., 1868 - 1947, for thirty-four years Editor of The Observer....
