George Gammon Adams

[4] He was taught to model and cut medals and coin dies by Benedetto Pistrucci.

[3] After a year in Rome studying under John Gibson in 1846, he returned to London and worked for Wyon at the Royal Mint on Tower Hill.

His 1856 statue of Napier in Trafalgar Square was the subject of unusually wide critical condemnation.

The Art Journal wrote, "the slightest attention to natural form and movement is all that is necessary for the condemnation of the statue of Gen Napier, in Trafalgar Sq, as perhaps the worst piece of sculpture in England.

The moral and relative worthlessness of the work exceeds tenfold its formal imperfection.