Focus on Statue of John Howard, Bedford and explain the Sculptor.
Alfred Gilbert (1854–1934) was a student of  Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, whose Statue of John Bunyan is nearby.  Gilbert is famed for his aluminium Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain, commonly called Eros but actually of his brother Anteros, in Piccadilly Circus in London.
Chandler Rathfon Post commented that the statue, along with the fountain in Piccadilly, "are as remarkable for the decorative detail of their pedestals as for their principal figures."
Piccadilly Circus Alfred Gilbert Chandler Rathfon Post Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain Joseph Edgar Boehm Statue of John Bunyan