Details of Sculptor

Surname

Bozzoni

Alternative Surname

First Name

Luigi, of Carrara

Initial of Surname

B

Year of Birth/Baptism

Flourished

1838-47

Year of Death

Biographical Details

Bozzoni was a native of Florence and studied in Rome under Bartolomeo Pinelli, a printmaker, painter, sculptor and draughtsman, before coming to England. In September 1838 he took as his studio part of the ground floor of the Imperial Hotel in Covent Garden, London. There he executed a series of 18 life-sized statues of apostles and martyrs and 18 reliefs for the Roman Catholic chapel at Everingham Hall, Yorks, recently built by a local landowner, William Constable Maxwell, later 10th Lord Herries (1, 2). A critic writing in the Art Union pronounced Bozzoni ‘a man of genius’, after viewing models for the first two statues, St Peter and St Paul (AU, 1839, 106). When the sculptor sent the figures of St Andrew and St John to the Westminster Hall Exhibition of 1844 the Literary Gazette noted that they displayed ‘good modelling about the drapery’ but added ‘as much cannot be said for the figures’ (Lit Gaz, 1435, 20 July 1844, 466). In 1847 Bozzoni exhibited a subject from Book XI of Virgil’s Æneid at the Royal Academy (3). He probably died the same year.
Literary References: AU, 1839, 106; 1840, 114; Gunnis 1968, 60