Joseph Wilton was an English sculptor. He was one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768, and the academy's third keeper. His works are particularly numerous memorialising the famous Britons in Westminster Abbey. In the United States, he is best remembered for sculpting a statue of King George III, which was located in Bowling Green park, New York City, which was pulled down by American patriots on July 9, 1776 and melted into 42,000 musketballs for the Continental Army.