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Leighton, Frederic
British painter, draughtsman, and sculptor in the nineteenth century. His sculpture An Athlete Wrestling With a Python (1877) was one of the inaugural works of the New Sculpture movement in Britain.
Scott, George Gilbert
English Gothic Revival sculptor in the nineteenth century. Some of his notable colonial works include the India and Foreign Offices in Whitehall (today the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Offices), the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens, and several church memorials to individuals in India, including James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, Colonel Richard Baird Smith, and Lady Charlotte Canning. Scott's mother, Euphemia Lynch (1785–1853), was the only daughter of Dr Thomas Lynch and Euphemia Gilbert of Antigua. The Gilberts were an established slave-owning and planter family on the island. Scott's father, the Reverend Thomas Scott (1780–1835), tried unsuccessfully to claim for slave compensation for the Gilbert's and Mercer's Creek estate in Antigua after abolition.