Edward Pierce (sculptor)

He was the son of Edward Pearce (d. 1658), a painter and stainer, noted for his decorative paintings in Old Somerset House.

[1] He is thought to have trained under Edward Bird working under Christopher Wren on London church interiors.

[2] In the 1650s he lived at the lower end of Surrey Street in the parish of St Botolph's, Aldgate.

He is buried only a dozen metres north in the churchyard of St Clement Danes, close to some of his finest interior work.

[4] Held in high esteem in his own lifetime an English-owned villa in Rome in 1711 is said to have been decorated by the heads of Palladio, Raphael and Buonarroti on one side and Inigo Jones, Isaac Fuller and Pierce on the other.