Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st baronet (1834–1890)

Austrian sculptor. Studied at Leigh’s art academy, London, and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, 1848–51; worked in Paris, 1859–62; settled in London in 1862. His works mainly consisted of statuettes and statues (including William Makepeace Thackeray (1864) and Thomas Caryle (1875)), busts (including James Whistler, John Ruskin, Thomas Huxley, Herbert Spencer, and William Ewart Gladstone), and church and public monuments (including Benjamin Disraeli, Arthur Stanley, Francis Drake, and Arthur Wellesley (the duke of Wellington)). He received over forty royal commissions from Queen Victoria and became tutor to her daughter Princess Louise. Created baronet, 1889.