Background
Lantéri was born in Auxerre, France but later took British nationality.
Lantéri was born in Auxerre, France but later took British nationality.
He studied art in the studios of François-Joseph Duret and Aimé Millet and at the school of fine arts under Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume and Pierre-Jules Cavelier.
His name is also frequently spelled without accents as Edouard Lanteri and his first name sometimes given in its English form as Edward. A period of poverty led him to becoming a cabinetmaker, but in 1872, at the age of 24, on the recommendation of fellow sculptor Jules Dalou, he moved to London to work as a studio assistant to Joseph Edgar Boehm. He stayed at the studio until 1890 and influenced Boehm"s pupil Alfred Gilbert.
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 (later renamed the Royal College of Art) and in 1900 became the College"s first Professor of Modelling (1900-1910).
In this role he was involved with the architectural and decorative sculpture for Sir Aston Webb"s Victoria & Albert Museum, London. William Kellock Brown
Alexander Carrick
Charles Sargeant Jagger
Gilbert Ledward
Walter Marsden
Oliver Sheppard
Clare Sheridan
Francis Shurrock
Albert Toft
Charles Wheeler
Francis Derwent Wood.
