The Duke of Wellington went to see it, and ordered a statue.

Sir Matthew White Eidley was much struck by the genius of young Lough, and became one of his greatest patrons.

The sculptor determined to strike out a new path for himself.
He thought the Greeks had exhausted the Pantheistic, and that heathen gods had been overdone.

Lough began and pursued the study of lyric sculpture: he would illustrate the great English poets.

But there was the obvious difficulty of telling the story of a figure by a single attitude.