Credit for this entry to:
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...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Baron Carlo Marochetti
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, dramatist, lived here, B: 1751, D: 1816. {Almost ...
2017: The plaque is no longer here (our photograph of it was taken some years...
{Incised into the stone of the wall where you rest your back when seated:}Thi...
