George Broad
George Robert Broad was a British brass and bronze founder, a gold and silver carver, and the owner of the Hammersmith Foundry - which cast the Eros Fountain in the centre of London's Piccadilly Circus.
George Robert Broad was born in Kensington, London in 1841, the son of John Broad, a journeyman bricklayer. He started in business as a brass founder in the 1870s, and after his death in 1895, his son George Frederick John Broad took over George Broad and Son.