George Broad
George Robert Broad was a British brass and bronze founder, and a gold and silver carver, the owner of the Hammersmith Foundry, which probably 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.
