(b Belfast, 1774; d London, 18 March 1839). Irish sculptor. His family was of Italian origin and settled in Ireland. In 1793 he moved to London and studied sculpture there under Peter Francis Chenu and at the Royal Academy, where he exhibited from 1802. He spent a period in Italy, where he was deeply influenced by Antonio Canova. From 1797 to 1800 he taught modelling to the daughters of George III and was subsequently Sculptor-in-Ordinary to the Royal Family. This led to a large international royal and aristocratic clientele for whom he modelled busts such as those of George III (1810; Windsor Castle, Berks, Royal Col.), Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1815; London, India Office) and Louis XVIII (exh. R.A. 1816). He visited Ireland frequently and while there modelled a bust of Henry Grattan (1812; Dublin, N.G.), which Canova praised, and one of Daniel O’Connell (1829); reproductions of these had a wide circulation.