Marie Tussaud (1760–1850)

German-born artist who assisted her uncle in his "Cabinet de Cire" at the Palais Royal, Paris. Modelled heads of the victims of the Terror during the French Revolution. Separated from her husband in 1800 and settled in England, transferring her wax-work collection to the Lyceum, Strand, 1802, later to Blackheath, and finally to Baker Street.