Robert William Sievier

[1] Sievier showed an early talent for drawing, and studied under John Young and Edward Scriven, before attending the Royal Academy Schools from 1818.

His first studio was in London's Southampton Row; in 1837, he relocated to Henrietta Street, near Cavendish Square, and he had a separate residence in Upper Holloway.

[2] His neighbour James Paget, a surgeon with a practice near Cavendish Square, wrote derisively of physician J. R. Hancorn's son: "Idle, dissipated, drinking,—associate of Sievier.

"[4] In 1837 he came third in the competition to design a monument to Nelson in Trafalgar Square, with a proposal devised jointly with the architect Charles Fowler.

Sievier's factory was situated close to his home, the Old Manor House, in Upper Holloway, at the south corner of Red Cap Lane (later Elthorne Road).