 On a recommendation of Sir Bathazar Gerbier, he cast the famous bronze equestrian statue of the king, made in 1633 for Richard, Lord Weston, Lord High Treasurer, for his house Mortlake Park in Roehampton.This statue was ordered to be destroyed by Parliament in 1649.After being hidden by the man charged with destroying the statue, it resurfaced at the Restoration and was erected in 1675 at the original site of Charing Cross, at Trafalgar Square, London (on a small traffic island at the entrance to The Mall).