Édouard Lantéri (31 October 1848 – 22 December 1917) was a French-born British

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and

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whose romantic French style of sculpting was seen as influential among exponents of New Sculpture. His name is also frequently spelled without accents as Edouard Lanteri and his first name sometimes given in its English form as Edward.

Biography

Lantéri was born in

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, France but later took British nationality. He studied art in the studios of

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and Aimé Millet and at the school of fine arts under Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume and

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. A period of poverty led him to becoming a cabinetmaker, but in 1872, at the age of 24, on the recommendation of fellow sculptor

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, he moved to London to work as a studio assistant to

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. He stayed at the studio until 1890 and influenced Boehm's pupil

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. Lantéri's sculptures were mainly modelled in clay before being cast in bronze, though he would also work in stone. He produced portrait busts, statuettes and life size statues. As of 1880 he taught at the

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in South Kensington, which became the

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in 1896, and in 1900 became the college's first professor of modelling (1900–10); in this role he was involved with the architectural and decorative sculpture for

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, London.

Written works

Towards the end of Lantéri's life he wrote a series of three books, explaining the art of human and animal composition in sculpture. First released as a collection of three books, they are now commonly found as two, with the animal sculpture separate from the human form. These books are still common required texts for many sculpture courses. The foreword to the original book was by friend and fellow sculptor

Auguste Rodin François Auguste René Rodin (; ; 12 November 184017 November 1917) was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a u ...

who refers to Lantéri as "Dear Master" * ''Modelling; A Guide for Teachers and Students'' (three volumes), London, Chapman and Hall (1911) * ''Modelling and Sculpting the Human Figure'', Dover Publications Inc., new edition (1986) * ''Modelling and Sculpting Animals'', Dover Publications Inc., new edition (1986)

Notable pupils

* William Kellock Brown * Mary Gaskell Gillick (nee Tutin) * Benjamin Clemens * Alexander Carrick * T. Mewburn Crook * Francis William Doyle-Jones * Margaret Giles * Allen Hutchinson *

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* Gilbert Ledward * Ruby Levick * Walter Marsden * Esther Moore *

Oliver Sheppard Oliver Sheppard (10 April 1865 – 14 September 1941) was an Irish sculptor, most famous for his 1911 bronze statue of the mythical Cuchullain dying in battle. His work was also part of the art competitions at the 1924 Summer Olympics and the ...

Clare Sheridan Clare Consuelo Sheridan (née Frewen; 9 September 1885 – 31 May 1970) was an English sculptor, journalist and writer, known primarily for creating busts for famous sitters and keeping travel diaries. She was a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill ...

* Francis Shurrock *

Lilian Simpson M. Lilian Simpson (c.1871–1897) was a British sculptor. Biography During the 1890s, Simpson was a student at the National Art Training School, NATS, in London where she was taught by the sculptor Édouard Lantéri. Among her contemporaries ...

* Florence Steele * Albert Toft * Lillian Wade * Reginald Fairfax Wells * Charles Wheeler * Lucy Gwendolen Williams * Dorothy Stanton Wise * Francis Derwent Wood

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