Andrea Carlo Lucchesi was born in London, England on 19 October 1860, and was the son of Ferdinando Lucchesi, a sculptor born in Tuscany in 1829. After training with his father, he studied at the West London School of Art and at the Royal Academy Schools in London from 1886 to 1890. He then worked as an assistant to sculptors Henry Hugh Armstead (1828-1905) and Edward Onslow Ford (1852-1901) and for two commercial silversmiths, Garrard’s and Elkington’s. Lucchesi exhibited at the Royal Academy in London from 1881 to 1925. He also exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; City of Manchester Art Gallery; and at Leeds City Art Gallery. He participated in the International Exhibition in Glasgow in 1901 In 1895 his “Destiny” was awarded a gold medal at Dresden and in 1900 a life-size plaster model of "Destiny" and another entitled "A Vanishing Dream" won gold medals at the Exposition Universelle in Paris.