Unknown man

Gott served his apprenticeship under John Flaxman between 1798 and 1802, and in 1805 enrolled at the Royal Academy Schools; in 1819 he won a gold medal at the Royal Academy for a group of Jacob Wrestling with an Angel. He exhibited at the British Institution in 1821 and 1822, and at the Royal Academy between 1820 and 1848. In 1822 he moved to Rome, where he stayed for the rest of his life, though he returned to Britain regularly to meet his patrons and gain commissions.

Gott produced a number of works containing groups of animals and children. T. F. Friedman, writing in the Dictionary of Art (1996), comments that 'Gott was never attracted by the austere neo-Greek style practised by Gibson and Richard James Wyatt: his sculpture is unheroic, pastoral, romantic.'