Andrea Carlo Lucchesi

Andrea Carlo Lucchesi (19 October 1859 – 9 April 1925)[2] was an Anglo-Italian sculptor, born and trained in London, who had a career in the United Kingdom as an exponent of the naturalistic and symbolist "New Sculpture".

[4] Lucchesi received his early training from his father, also a sculptor, and at the West London School of Art;[5] he first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1881.

[8] In addition to his own work, he assisted Henry Hugh Armstead and Edward Onslow Ford, and provided models for electroplate silverware by Elkington & Company and the Crown Jewelers, Garrard's.

[9] After Edward Onslow Ford's death Lucchesi worked on his memorial, designed by architect John William Simpson, which now stands in Abbey Road, St. John's Wood, London, close to Ford's former home (and also close to what is now Abbey Road Studios and its famous zebra crossing).

Ford's original statue is a standing semi-nude female figure, depicted singing and playing a lyre.