Édouard Lantéri (31 October 1848[1] – 22 December 1917) was a French-born British sculptor and medallist whose romantic French style of sculpting was seen as influential among exponents of New Sculpture.

[2] A period of poverty led him to becoming a cabinetmaker, but in 1872, at the age of 24, on the recommendation of fellow sculptor Jules Dalou, he moved to London to work as a studio assistant to Joseph Edgar Boehm.

As of 1880 he taught at the National Art Training School in South Kensington, which became the Royal College of Art in 1896, and in 1900 became the college's first professor of modelling (1900–10); in this role he was involved with the architectural and decorative sculpture for Sir Aston Webb's Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

[3] Towards the end of Lantéri's life he wrote a series of three books, explaining the art of human and animal composition in sculpture.

First released as a collection of three books, they are now commonly found as two, with the animal sculpture separate from the human form.