The statue of Eros, which stands in Piccadilly Circus, is modelled on Angelo Colarossi, who from the ages of 15 to 18 posed for the sculptor Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934) in the artist's Maida Vale studio.
The Colarossis, a Model Family
Angelo came from an artistic family. His uncle Filippo ran the Académie Colarossi in Paris, and his father, also called Angelo, was a well known London artists' model. With the kind of chiselled features and body-builder's physique that was useful in portraying classical figures, Angelo senior can be seen in relief on the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens and on Queen Victoria's statue in front of Buckingham Palace.
He is portrayed as the sailor in John Everett Millais' Boyhood of Raleigh (1870), in which his luxuriant moustache is just visible, and he is the muscular statue in An Athlete Wrestling With a Python (1877) by Frederick, Lord Leighton, who painted Angelos father and son together in the large circular canvas And The Sea Gave Up The Dead Which Were In It (1892), designed for the dome of St Paul's Cathedral and now in the Tate Collection.
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