Carlo Marochetti

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Carlo Marochetti
Marochetti by Antoine Claudet
Born
Pietro Carlo Giovanni Battista Marochetti

(1805-01-14)14 January 1805
Turin, Italy
Died29 December 1867(1867-12-29) (aged 62)
Passy, France
NationalityItalian / French
EducationÉcole des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Known forSculpture, Public monuments

Baron Pietro Carlo Giovanni Battista Marochetti RA (14 January 1805 – 29 December 1867) was an Italian-born French sculptor who worked in France, Italy and Britain. He completed many public sculptures, often in a neo-classical style, plus reliefs, memorials and large equestrian monuments in bronze and marble. In 1848, Marochetti settled in England, where he received commissions from Queen Victoria. Marochetti received great recognition during his lifetime, being made a baron in Italy and was awarded the Legion of Honour by the French government.

Biography

Early life

Carlo Marochetti was born in

Paris Salon in 1827 he exhibited a marble statue of A Young Girl playing with a Dog which won a silver medal.[5] Between 1822 and 1830 Marochetti frequently spent long periods in Rome where his mother was resident and where he collaborated with François-Joseph Duret and Antoine Étex and worked briefly at the studio of the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen.[1][2]

Career in France

From 1832 to 1848 Marochetti lived in Paris and largely adopted a neo-classical Romantic style of sculpture. He married Camille de Maussion in 1835 and together they had two sons and a daughter.

Ferdinand, Duke of Orleans, which stood in the courtyard of the Louvre for four years.[6] In 1839 the French government awarded him the Legion of Honour.[5] During 1840 Marochetti was competing to win both the commission for a monument to the Duke of Wellington for the city of Glasgow and for the commission to design the tomb of Napoleon for Les Invalides in Paris.[1] Although he won the Glasgow commission, Marochetti's proposal for the tomb attracted widespread public criticism in France and was rejected.[1]

When his father died, Marochetti inherited the family château at

Louis-Philippe into exile in the United Kingdom.[2][1]

Career in London

Marochetti spent the greater part of his time from 1848 until his death, in London.

Prince Albert.[6]

Memorial to Viscounts William and Frederick Melbourne, St Paul's Cathedral

From his studio and foundry Marochetti, and his workforce, produced numerous statues, memorials and equestrian monuments plus smaller pieces. He also experimented with the use of new materials and the creation of multi-coloured, or polychromic, sculptures.

Sir Edwin Landseer on the four bronze lions to be placed at the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, and cast them at his Sydney Mews foundry.[8] He experimented in using coloured marble following the work of John Gibson and a coloured statuette of Queen Victoria was exhibited at a London studio but is now lost.[1]

Not all of Marochetti's designs were so successful. His proposed design for the tomb of the Duke of Wellington was rejected.[1] Marochetti's equestrian monument to George Washington for the 1853 World Fair in New York was destroyed by fire.[11] In the 1860s he championed a scheme for a set of statues celebrating British engineers to be erected in the churchyard of St Margaret's, Westminster. The scheme was rejected but three of the statues, of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Robert Stephenson and Joseph Locke were erected separately elsewhere.[1] His monumental statue of Robert Peel in Parliament Square was melted down and the metal used for the smaller model of Peel by Matthew Noble which replaced it.[1][12]

Busts of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

With the support of the exiled

Louis-Philippe of France, Marochetti first met Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1849 and subsequently received a number of royal commissions.[1][4] Marochetti's first royal commission in England was for a marble portrait bust of Prince Albert in 1849, which was commercially reproduced in Parian ware by the Mintons company in 1862.[4] That year Queen Victoria commissioned Marochetti to produce a portrait bust of herself as a birthday gift for Prince Albert and that too was reproduced by Mintons for the retail market.[4] Rather than a crown, he depicted her wearing a headpiece of various flowers, including roses and shamrocks, to represent the nations of the United Kingdom.[4]

Marochetti designed Victoria's memorial to

Royal Academy 1861 and a full academician in 1866.[2]

Marochetti died, suddenly, at Passy in Paris and was buried at the Vaux-sur-Seine cemetery.[6]

Selected public works

1830-1839

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes

More images 		Tommaso grave
Père-Lachaise cemetery
, Paris 		Sculpture on pillar Stone Q112342353

More images 		Battle of Jemappes East facade of the Arc de Triomphe, Paris 1834 Relief panel Stone 18m x 3.5m [1]

More images 		Grave of Vincenzo Bellini
Père-Lachaise cemetery
, Paris 		After 1835 Obelisk with portrait medallion Stone Q112308945 Architect: Guillaume-Abel Blouet[6][16]

More images 		Marochetti tomb
Père-Lachaise cemetery
, Paris 		1838 Pillar with reliefs Stone Q112332551

More images
Statue of Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy
 Piazza San Carlo, Turin 1838 Equestrian statue on pedestal with relief panels Bronze and stone Q3663864 [1][17]

1840-1849

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes

More images 		Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne Carhaix-Plouguer, Brittany, France c. 1840 Statue on pedestal with relief panels Bronze and stone [6][18]

More images 		Mary Magdalen Exalted by Angels La Madeleine, Paris c.1842 Sculpture group and altar Marble [1][19]

More images 		Claude Louis Berthollet Jardins de I'Europe, Annecy, France 1843 Statue on pedestal Bronze and stone Q56716583 [20]

More images 		Statue of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow 1844 Equestrian statue on pedestal with relief panels Bronze and granite Category A Q7981506 [21]

More images 		Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans Eu, Seine-Maritime, France 1845 Equestrian statue on pedestal with relief panels Bronze & stone Q20799860 [22]

More images 		Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans Neuilly-sur-Seine, France 1845 Equestrian statue on pedestal with relief panels Bronze & stone Q96600378 Monument was originally erected in Algiers, relocated 1980[23]

More images 		Pierre Paul Royer-Collard
Vitry-Le-Francois, Marne
, France 		1846 Statue on pedestal Bronze & stone [24]

1850-1859

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
Memorial to Granville Gower Loch St Paul's Cathedral, London 1853 Relief plaque Marble [25]
Tomb of the Contesse de Lariboisiere Chapel of Lariboisière Hospital, Paris 1853 Statues and sculpture group on pedestal Marble [26]
George Washington Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, New York City 1853 Equestrian statue Bronze Original was destroyed by fire, but a small version was erected at
Chateau de Cheverny[27]

More images 		Queen Victoria George Square, Glasgow 1854 Equestrian statue on pedestal with relief panels Bronze and granite Category A Q17567473 First equestrian statue of a woman in Britain.[28][29]

More images 		Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Woodhouse Moor, Leeds 1854, erected 1858 Statue on pedestal Bronze and granite Grade II Q26656015 [14][30]
Sir John Bankes Kingston Lacy, Dorset 1853-55 Bust Bronze One of two busts, plus a life-size statue, of Bankes which Marochetti created for Kingston Lacey[9]
King Charles I Kingston Lacy, Dorset 1853-55 Statue on stand Bronze [9]
Mary Bankes 1598-1661 Kingston Lacy, Dorset 1853-55 Statue on stand Bronze [9]

More images 		Memorial to Viscounts William and Frederick Melbourne
St. Paul's Cathedral
, London 		After 1853 False door flanked by two statues White & black marble and gilded bronze [10]

More images 		James Oswald George Square, Glasgow 1855 Statue on pedestal Bronze and granite Category B Q17792900 [31]

More images
Richard Coeur de Lion
 Palace of Westminster, London 1856 Equestrian statue on pedestal Bronze and granite Grade II Q7324819 [14][32][12]
Memorial to John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow Church of St Peter and St Paul, Belton, South Kesteven 1856 Effigy on chest tomb Marble Grade I [33][34]
The Scutari Obelisk, Crimean War memorial Haydarpaşa Cemetery, Istanbul 1856-58 Obelisk with supporting statues on pedestal Stone [1][10][35]

1860 and later

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes

More images
Clive of India
 The Square, Shrewsbury c. 1860 Statue on pedestal Bronze and granite Grade II Q26546539 [14][36]

More images 		9th Queens Royal Lancers memorial Exeter Cathedral 1860 Relief panels Marble and bronze Grade I Q83187729 [37][38]

More images 		Cavalry Division Crimean War memorial St Paul's Cathedral, London 1860-65 Tripartite curved relief plaque Marble [39]

More images 		Major General Sir Arthur Wellesley Torrens St Paul's Cathedral, London 1860-65 Relief plaque Marble [40]

More images 		Coldstream Guards Battle of Inkerman memorial St Paul's Cathedral, London 1860-1865 Deep relief plaque Stone [41]

More images 		Charles Albert of Sardinia Piazza Carlo Alberto, Turin 1861 Equestrian statue on pedestal with statues at base Bronze and stone Q21141719 [42]

More images 		Angel of the Resurrection, Siege of Cawnpore memorial
Cawnpore
, India 		1862-65 Statue with cross on pedestal with surrounding walls Stone Architect, Henry Yule.[1][10][43][4][44]

More images 		Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea Victoria Park, Salisbury 1863 Statue on pedestal Bronze and stone Grade II Q26536005 [14][45][46]

More images 		Gioachino Rossini Conservatorio Statale di Musica "Gioachino Rossini", Pesaro, Italy 1864 Seated statue on pedestal Bronze & stone Plaster model in the Victoria and Albert Museum[47][27]

More images 		Anthony Panizzi British Library, London 1864 Bust Carrara marble 71cm x 50cm [48][49]

More images 		George Cornewall Lewis St Peter's Square, Hereford c. 1864 Statue on pedestal Bronze and granite Grade II Q47472418 [14][50]
Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort Royal Mausoleum, Frogmore 1864-68 Two recumbent tomb effigies Marble Grade I Marochetti also created the four bronze figures of angels kneeling at each corner of the tomb[4][51][52]

More images 		Statue of Viscount Combermere Grosvenor Road, Chester 1865 Equestrian statue on pedestal Bronze and granite 7.1m tall Grade II* Q15978984 [14][53]
Albert, Prince Consort
 Union Terrace, Aberdeen 1865 Statue on pedestal Bronze and granite Category B Q17770085 [54]

More images 		William Makepeace Thackeray Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, London 1865 Bust Marble [55]

More images
Albert, Prince Consort
 George Square, Glasgow 1866 Equestrian statue on pedestal Bronze and granite Category A Q17567468 [56]
Statue of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington The Wellington Monument, Stratfield Saye House, Hampshire 1866 Statue on column Bronze Grade II Q26384539 [14][57][58]
Statue of Mark Cubbon
Cubbon Park, Bangalore
 		1866 Equestrian statue on pedestal Bronze and stone Q97183425 [59][43]
Joseph Locke Locke Park, Barnsley 1866 Statue on pedestal with balustrade Bronze, granite and Portland stone Grade II Q26443938 [14][60]

More images 		Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde Waterloo Place, London 1867 Statue on piller with statues at base Bronze and red granite Grade II Q27083599 [12][61]

More images 		Statue of Robert Stephenson
Euston station
, London 		Erected 1870 Statue on pedestal Bronze and granite 2.7m tall Grade II Q27084501 [14][12][62]

More images 		Statue of Isambard Kingdom Brunel Victoria Embankment, London c.1877 Statue on pedestal with surrounding screen Bronze and Portland stone 2.5m tall Grade II Q20829598 Pedestal by Richard Norman Shaw.[12][63]

More images 		Jonas Webb High Street, Babraham, Cambridgeshire Late 19th century Statue on pedestal Bronze and stone Grade II Q26616046 [64]

Other works

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