Alfred Stevens (sculptor)

Alfred George Stevens , was a British sculptor. His major work is the monument to the Duke of Wellington in St Pauls Cathedral.

Stevens was born at Blandford Forum in Dorset, the son of a decorator and joiner. At the age of ten, he entered his fathers workshop as an assistant. In 1833, the rector of his parish enabled him to go to Italy, where he spent nine years studying at Naples, Bologna, Siena, Pompeii, Capri, Rome, Milan, Venice, and Florence where he studied for a time at the Accademia di Belle Arti. Stevens had never attended an English school. In 1841, Bertel Thorvaldsen employed him for a year in Rome.

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