I may have been over–thinking it for all these years, and if I have a problem with the wording of this question it's because I can't help thinking there may be a popular misconception at play here. Because I've always been more than a little puzzled over the provenance of the Trafalgar Square lions.
Sir Edwin Landseer was one of the most famous and popular British painters of the Victorian era. His paintings include The Monarch of the Glen, as well as various depictions of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their various pets.
And then there's the Trafalgar Square lions. Wikipedia describes these as "his best known works", and I wouldn't argue with that. The problem is that I can find no other evidence of Landseer being a sculptor.
Wikipedia goes on to tell us that "Landseer ... asked to be supplied with copies of casts of a real lion he knew were in the possession of the academy at Turin. The lions were made at the Kensington studio of Carlo Marochetti, who also cast them. Work was slowed by Landseer's ill health, and his fractious relationship with Marochetti. The sculptures were installed in 1867."
So what part did Landseer actually play in the creation of the lions? He copied some casts that were done in Italy, and Marochetti (another Italian) did the actual work. "His fractious relationship with Marochetti" ... did that have anything to do with the fact that Marochetti did all the work and Landseer got all the credit?
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