Édouard Lantéri (31 October 1848[1] – 22 December 1917) was a French-born British sculptor and medallist 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.
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 National Art Training School in South Kensington, which became the Royal College of Art 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 Sir Aston Webb's Victoria & Albert Museum, London.[3]
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 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)
^ abUniversity of Glasgow History of Art / HATII (2011). "Professor Edouard Lanteri". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
^Black, Jonathan (2011). "The illusion of permanence: archaeology, imperialism and British public sculpture between the World Wars". In Bonaventura, Paul; Jones, Andrew (eds.). Sculpture and Archaeology. Ashgate Publishing. p. 61. ISBN9780754658313.
^University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII (2011). "Florence Harriet Steele". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
