- CountryUK
- Town:London
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Year of creation:1836
- Rider(s):George III
(1738–1820) was born in Britain and spoke English as his first language. Early in his reign, Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years’ War, becoming the dominant European power in North America and India. However, many of its American colonies were soon lost in the American War of Independence. The populace of New York City destroyed his equestrian statue, dedicated there in 1770, shortly after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, six years later.
Since George III suffered from recurrent, and eventually permanent, mental illness in the later part of his life, he played a minor role in the wars against Napoleonic France.
- Sculptor(s):Wyatt, Matthew Cotes
(1777 –1862) was a painter and sculptor and a member of the Wyatt family, who were well known in the Victorian era as architects and sculptors.
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This statue in London shows the king trotting off by St James’s Place, holding his cocked hat in his hand and with his very pronounced pigtail tied up in a bow. It was the first equestrian statue of a British monarch that was not a Marcus Aurelius lookalike.
