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Pietro Porcelli
Porcelli working on a statue of C. Y. O'Connor, 1910 or 1911.
A bronze statue of Porcelli by Perth artist Greg James was unveiled in Kings Square, Fremantle, in 1993.

Pietro Giacomo Porcelli (30 January 1872 – 28 June 1943) was an Italian-born sculptor responsible for many statues in Western Australia, including the Explorers' Monument, and those of C. Y. O'Connor and Alexander Forrest.[1]

  1. ^ Simon Keane (1988). "Porcelli, Pietro Giacomo (1872–1943)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-522-84437-5

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Detail of the statue by Pietro Porcelli...

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World War I memorials

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