Edgar George Papworth Senior

He studied at the Royal Academy of Arts where he later exhibited works; he created sculptures of classical themes, and of notable people of the day.

[1] While in Rome he made sketches for a panorama of that city; these he enlarged, and exhibited about 1844 for a short time in a gallery in Great Portland Street.

[1] Meanwhile, he continued to exhibit, chiefly busts, statuettes, and sketch designs, sent from his studio in Seymour Street, St Pancras.

Among the numerous busts of eminent men he executed those of John Hanning Speke, of Sir Richard Burton, and of Admiral Robert Blake, erected in the shire hall in Taunton.

Titles include "The Bird's Nester" (1857), "An Incident in the Siege of Lucknow" (1858),[2] and in 1859 "The Young Emigrant" and "The Bride".