Edwin Landseer Lutyens is the principal architect of the Rashtrapati Bhavan which was earlier called as the Viceroy House.
He was born as the tenth child of Charles and Mary Lutyens. He was born on 29 March, 1869 and suffered rheumatic fever in his childhood, due to which he could not attend school. At the age of sixteen, he joined the Royal College of Art in South Kensington but left it after two years. His formal education in the discipline of architecture was incomplete, though he started his independent office at the age of twenty. He is known for his unconventional approach, aptly visible in his architectural buildings too.
This memorial bust was sculpted by H. A. N. Medd in England at the request of Lord Mountbatten. He is sculpted in his iconic black coat, the hands of which hang freely on each side of the bust. With a frontal face, the eyes are directed towards the spectator. His characteristic round spectacles can also be seen.
Medd was assistant to Herbert Baker in Delhi from 1919. He won the competition for the designs of the Angelican Church of the Redemption and of the Roman Catholic Church of Delhi.
