Home | Vane, Charles William
- CountryUK
- Town:Durham
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Year of creation:1861
- Rider(s):Vane, Charles William
(1778-1854) 3rd Marquess of Londonderry was a British soldier, politician and nobleman.
- Sculptor(s):Monti, Raffaelle
(1818–1881) was an Italian sculptor, author and poet. Born in Milan he studied under his father, the noted sculptor Gaetano Matteo Monti, in the Imperial Academy. At the age of only 20 he was invited to Vienna, where he received extensive patronage; he subsequently returned to Milan in 1840. In 1846 Monti travelled to England for the year, and later settled there.
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The sculptor of this statue did not, as is often thought commit suicide following the discovery of a flaw in his creation by a blind beggar man. Legend has it that Monti boasted that no one could find fault with his statue until one day a blind man pointed out that the horse had no tongue by feeling inside its mouth. The legend – is a legend.
