John Ternouth

His most notable work is one of the four panels at the base of Nelson's Column in London's Trafalgar Square, depicting the Battle of Copenhagen.

While still working in Chantrey's studio, he also built up a practice as a sculptor in his own name, making busts and funerary monuments.

[4] He had been recommended to this post by the architect Edward Blore, who also employed him to carve figures of St George and Britannia at Buckingham Palace.

The choice of sculptors was influenced by the results of the 1844 Westminster Hall exhibition, and Ternouth was recommended for this commission by the prime minister, Sir Robert Peel.

The plaster relief was ready by June 1848, and Prince Albert visited Ternouth’s studio to inspect it on 1 July 1848.