Who ever imagined that the Royal Academy alone could have hosted 150 Italian artists?
That the lions in Trafalgar Square were cast by Carlo Marochetti, like the bust of the famous librarian Sir Anthony Panizzi at the British Museum?
That Eros in Piccadilly was the Italian model Angelo Colarossi?
That the portrait of Lady Colin Campbell, star of a scandalous divorce case, in full view at the National Portrait Gallery, was a creation of Giovanni Boldini?

And much more besides!