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The statue was the first in the world to be cast in aluminium and is set on a bronze fountain, which itself inspired the marine motifs that Gilbert carved on the statue Leicester homes for sale.

The statue is generally believed to depict Eros, but was intended to be an image of his twin brother, Anteros, as confirmed by the contemporary records of Westminster City Council[citation Leicester homes for sale needed]. The sculptor Alfred Gilbert had already sculpted a statue of Anteros, and when commissioned for the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain, chose to reproduce the same subject, who as 'The God of Selfless Love' was deemed to suitably represent the philanthropic 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Leicester homes for sale.

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Shaftesbury Memorial and the Statue of Anteros
Piccadilly Circus memorial fountain, with Anteros, popularly Leicester homes for sale referred to (wrongly) as either The Angel of Christian Charity, or Eros, one of the first statues to be cast in aluminium.

At the south-western side of the Circus, moved after World War II from its original position in the centre, stands the Leicester homes for sale Shaftesbury Monument Memorial Fountain, erected in 1892-1893 to commemorate the philanthropic works of Lord Shaftesbury, who was a famous Victorian politician and philanthropist.

The monument is topped by Alfred Gilbert's winged nude statue of an archer, sometimes referred to (inaccurately) as The Angel of Christian Charity and popularly (also inaccurately) Leicester homes for sale known as Eros after the mythical Greek God of Love. The statue has become a London icon: a graphical illustration of it is used as the symbol of the Evening Standard newspaper, and appears on its masthead.

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Leicester homes for sale the use of a nude figure on a public monument was controversial at the time of its construction, but it was generally well-received by the public.

The Magazine of Art described it as, "...a striking contrast to the dull ugliness of the Leicester homes for sale generality of our street sculpture, ... a work which, while beautifying one of our hitherto desolate open spaces, should do much towards the elevation of public taste in the direction of decorative sculpture, and serve freedom for the metropolis from any further additions of the old order of monumental monstrosities."

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