London-based sculptors and stone and marble carvers, born in Chelsea. Their father was Gottardo Induni (c.1862–1918) and maternal grandfather, Angelo Castioni (1834–1906), both sculptors and marble carvers, both born in Switzerland. In addition to the training Peter and Joseph Induni would presumably have received in their father’s workshop, Peter also studied with some success at the Royal Academy Schools, winning prizes in three consecutive years: in 1912 his ‘set of three models of a figure from life’ was awarded a second prize of £10 and a bronze medal and in 1913 a first prize of £15 and a silver medal, while in 1914 his ‘two models of a bust from life’ gained him a first prize silver medal. Most importantly, in 1913 he was awarded a two-year Landseer Scholarship for sculpture. However, he showed at the annual Royal Academy exhibitions just once, in 1933, his sole contribution being a marble relief portrait. Essentially, the brothers earned their living as praticiens, carving sculptures designed by other sculptors, their many projects including stone and marble carving for Sir Aston Webb and Sir Thomas Brock’s Queen Victoria Memorial, 1906–14, The Mall, London; some of Ernest Cole’s groups, 1915–21, for County Hall, London; Gilbert Bayes’s frieze, Play up! Play up! and Play the Game, 1934, for Lord’s Cricket Ground, London; and William Reid Dick’s tomb of King George V and Queen Mary, 1939, for St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. A commission taken on solely by Peter was the completion of the carving, from David Evans’s model, of the Memorial to Bishop Chavasse on the back of the Bishop’s Throne in Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral, which Joseph Phillips had been working on at the time of his death in 1933. A rare original work by Peter is his marble bust of the artist, Phoebe Anne Traquair, 1927, in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. In 1985, David McFall carved a stone inscription tablet which was set into the wall of 4 Fulham Park Gardens, London, to commemorate Peter Induni’s residence there from 1930 until his death in 1943. Among the works undertaken by Joseph after Peter’s death, was the carving of Reid Dick’s statue of King George V, 1947, for Old Palace Yard, London.
Ancestry: (1) Peter Induni: (i) ‘England and Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index 1837–1915 … 1888 Q3-Jul-Aug-Sep’, (ii) ‘England and Wales, Civil Registration Death Index 1916–2007 … 1943 Q4-Oct-Nov-Dec’, (iii) ‘1901 England. Census … London. Chelsea, South. District 09’; (2) Joseph Induni: (i) ‘1939. England and Wales Registration … Middlesex. Heston and Isleworth Mb. Bldj.’, (ii) England and Wales, Civil Registration Death Index 1916–2007 … 1956. Q4-Octo-Nov-Dec’.
Archives: Conway Library – letter from Anne Induni to Hermione Hobhouse, 30 November 1989 (photocopy).
Bibliography: T. Cavanagh, Public Sculpture of South London, Liverpool, 2007, pp. 95, 100, 102, 104n15, 105n47, 335; Mapping Sculpture: (i) Peter Induni, (ii) Joseph Vincent Induni, (iii) Gottardo Induni; J. Sharples, Liverpool (Pevsner Architectural Guides), New Haven and London, 2004, p. 81; Survey of London Monograph 17. County Hall.
Terry Cavanagh, January 2025; revised, March 2026