Richard Cockle Lucas was born in Salisbury 1800 and died in Chilworth, near Winchester in 1883. He trained under Richard Westmacott at the Royal Academy Schools in 1828 and became a well known modeller and received the patronage of Lord Palmerston among other notables, and also portrayed numerous images of the Bishop of Salisbury and the Dean of Winchester.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
E.J.Pyke, A Biographical Dictionary of Wax Modellers, Oxford At the Clarendon Press 1973, page 82, illustration 178. (c70).