The Vienna-born sculptor and medalist Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Baronet, gained international fame in the middle of the 19th century for his medals and sculptures, which were awarded the Imperial Prize and were awarded at the 1862 World Exhibition. In 1962 Boehm moved to London, where he made a name for himself primarily with the statue of the Duke of Wellington in Hyde Park Corner and the face of Queen Victoria he modeled on the commemorative coin on the occasion of her golden jubilee of the throne. The sculptures of Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm were very well received at the court of Queen Victoria, which is probably why one of her daughters, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, was allowed to take sculpture lessons with him, in whose pres...