John Edward Carew

Thought to be the son of a local stonemason and sculptor, Carew was born in Tramore near Waterford on the southern Irish coast.

Carew claimed that he had not been properly paid for the sculptures made for Petworth, and that he had sacrificed commercial success by moving to Sussex to be near the earl.

[2] Petworth still has a superb collection of Carew's work in marble, including the neo-classical mythological subjects Arethusa (1823), Adonis and the Boar (1826), The Falconer (1831) and Prometheus and Pandora (1838), and a series of busts, among them a portrait of Egremont (1831).

In the years following the court case, Carew received several prominent public commissions, including the Royal Arms and the statue of Richard Whittington for the façade of the Royal Exchange (1844),[3] and a statue of Henry Grattan for St Stephen's Hall in the Palace of Westminster (1857).

For the Catholic cathedral at St John's, Newfoundland, Carew executed several statues and an elaborate altarpiece.