Althea Wynne

[5][6] In 1959 Wynne gained an early commission from London County Council for a ciment-fondu group of swimmers,[5] and in 1960 she won an open competition to design a new silver horse-racing trophy.

[8] In February it was reported that there were plans to proceed with the Windsor project, finding another sculptor to complete the work by June 2013.

[5][11] A lifelong rider, she made a number of equine statues, and in 1989 Prudential Property gave her a commission for three bronze horses to stand by the steps at Minster Court in the City of London.

[5] Since nicknamed Sterling, Dollar and Yen,[12] the group is ten feet high, weighs fourteen tonnes, and has been compared with the horses of St Mark's Basilica in Venice.

[7][11] Other work includes a group called White Horses, at the centre of a restaurant on Queen Elizabeth 2, which shows four horses riding the waves,[13] "Europa and the Bull", a full-size bronze figure, and the three huge obelisks rising through the Bluewater shopping centre at Greenhithe in Kent.