Statue of George III, Somerset House

The statue of George III, Somerset House, formally titled George III and the River Thames,[1] is a Grade I listed outdoor bronze sculptural group depicting King George III and Neptune or Father Thames, located in the quadrangle of Somerset House, London, England.

[3] Father Thames is reclining on a lower, semi-circular plinth, one hand on an urn with a cornucopia behind him.

[3][2] When Queen Charlotte first saw the statue of her husband she asked the sculptor 'Why did you make so frightful a figure?'.

Bacon bowed and replied 'Art cannot always effect what is ever within the reach of Nature – the union of beauty and majesty.

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