Richard Westmacott the Younger (1775–1856) was one of Britain’s leading sculptors of the early nineteenth century, renowned for monumental public sculpture and refined neoclassical reliefs. The son of sculptor Richard Westmacott ⓘ, he received his initial training in his father’s workshop before studying in Rome, where he absorbed the principles of antique sculpture at first hand.

Westmacott achieved national prominence through large-scale public commissions, most famously the colossal bronze Achilles in Hyde Park, erected as a monument to the Duke of Wellington. His work combines academic classicism with a clarity of form suited to civic commemoration, and he played a central role in shaping the visual language of British public sculpture during the Regency and early Victorian periods.

He served as Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy and was knighted in recognition of his contribution to British art.