Joseph Panzetta

Joseph Panzetta was an Italian sculptor and modeller who worked in England from c.1787–1830 and exhibited at Royal Academy from 1789–1810.

”[1] Admiral Lord Nelson's Pediment in the King William Courtyard of the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich - was regarded by the Coade workers as the finest of all their work.

It was sculpted by Joseph Panzetta in 1813, as a public memorial after his death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

It was based on a painting by Benjamin West depicting Nelson's body being offered to Britannia by a Winged Victory.

[1] In an article in the Dictionary of National Biography (2008) Alison Kelly implies that the statue of Lord Hill in Shrewsbury, at circa 16 feet tall was the largest single figure ever ordered in Coade stone.