MAROCHETTI

Carlo (son of French parents). b. Turin 1805; naturalised at Paris 1814; ed. at the Lycée Napoleon, Paris; studied art in Rome 1822–30; exhibited equestrian statue of Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy at Paris, presented statue to city of Turin, for this he was created a baron of the Italian Kingdom by Carlo Alberto, king of Sardinia; executed relief of battle of Jemappes on the Arc de l’ Etoile, and tomb of Bellini in cemetery of Père Lachaise, Paris; chevalier of legion of honour 1839; came to England 1848; exhibited a bust and statue of Sappho at the R.A. 1850; the model of his great equestrian statue of Richard Cœur de Lion attracted universal attention at Great Exhibition 1851, statue was erected in bronze in palace yard, Westminster 1860; exhibited 35 pieces of sculpture at R.A. 1851–67; designed granite obelisk to memory of soldiers slain in the Crimea 1856, and statue of lord Clyde in Carlton Gardens, London 1867; elected without ballot into Athenæum club 1853; A.R.A. 1861, R.A. 1866; grand officer of St. Maurice and Lazare, July 1861; lived at 34 Onslow sq. London. d. suddenly at residence of his sister-in-law Counte de Sade at Pa y near Paris 29 Dec. 1867. Sandby’s Royal Academy , ii 352 (1862); I.L.N. xxxvlii 176, 178 (1861), portrait ; Illust. Times 28 July 1866 p. 57, portrait ; G.M. Feb. 1868 pp. 249–50.