Samuel Nixon (artist)

Gentleman's Magazine called it "a striking and imposing object… a masterpiece" and "one of the chief ornaments of the City of London."

The statues stand on four pedestals on the lower flight of the grand staircase.

"[5] The white marble statues of "The Seasons" are described as "exquisite" and that Nixon achieved "extreme delicacy" with his "masterly chisel.

"[5] Gentleman's Magazine indicated that he has "been employed principally in Sepulchre sculpture, and had executed numerous works of a superior character in that class, many of which have been sent to Canada.

His elder brother was James Henry Nixon (1802–1857), a painter on glass.