Christopher Hewetson

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Christopher Hewetson (1739 - 1799), the sculptor, was born in Kilkenny, Ireland. He moved to Rome in 1765 where he remained for the remainder of his life. He became well-known, creating busts of Pope Clement XIV and the Empress of Russia, and a monument to Cardinal Rezzonicco.

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Department of Medieval & Modern Europe, British Museum, marble bust of the antiquarian Charles Townley, 1769
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Bust of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn 1769
Several almost identical copies which at various times have been in Ammerdown (Somerset); Gorhambury (Herts); Beningbrough Hall (Yorks); Margam Castle, Wales; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and currently the Center of British Art of Yale University (New Haven, USA) Bust of Pope Clement XIV Ganganelli - two in 1772, one in 1776
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, marble bust of Thomas Mansell Talbot (wealthy Welsh Landowner) 1773
A chalk version of the above in the Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa, Italy.
Museo di Roma in Palazzo Braschi, Rome, marble Bust of Luigi Gonzaga 1776
Museo di Roma in Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Bust of Maria Maddalena Morelli 1776
National Portrait Gallery, London, marble bust of Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol c. [[1778]
San Tommaso, Rome, marble Medallion in the Monument to Martha Swinburne 1779
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Portrait of an Unknown Gentleman-Robert Adams c. 1780
Institut de France, Paris, a bronze of Don Josè Nicola d’Azara c.1780
A marble version of the above in Protomoteca Capitolina, Rome, 1781
Protomoteca Capitolina, Rome, marble Bust of A.R.Mengs 1781
University Art Collection, Glasgow, Bust of Gavin Hamilton 1784
The Louvre, Paris, Thomas Brereton-Westfaling (1740 - 1814) c. 1785
Examination Hall, Trinity College, Dublin, Monument to Dr Baldwin (two facing pieces purchased for 2000 guineas) 1784
San Nicola in Carcere, Rome, marble Monument to Card. Giovanni Batt. Rezzonico 1787
Reception hall of the Technologie Centrum, Hannover, bust of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1787 - 1790
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Bust of Anton Raphael Mengs, Cast by Francesco Righetti, 1792
Museo Capitolino, Rome, marble Bust of Giovanni Pichlers 1797
St Mary, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England, Bust of Thomas Westfaling 19th century
Gascoigne bequest at Lotherton Hall, Leeds, bust of Mr and Mrs Henry Swinburne
Gascoigne bequest at Lotherton Hall, Leeds, Alcyone and Ceyx relief.

[edit] Bibliography

Thieme – F. Becker, Hewetson Cristopher, “Allgemeines Lexicon der Bildenden Kunstler”, Lipzig 1924, vol. XVII, p.13.
C. Pietrangeli, a cura di G. Incisa della Rocchetta, Vincenzo Monti a Roma, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Palazzo Braschi, Roma, 1955, pp. 47, 50, tav. VII.
V. Martinelli, C. Pietrangeli, La Protomoteca Capitolina, Roma, 1955, pp.8, 36, 73, 78, tavv. VIII e 2.
J. Barnes, An unknown bust by Chrisopher Hewetson, “Antologia di Belle Arti”, s.s., 52-55, 1996, pp. 166-169.
Christopher Hewetson (1737-1798), Irish sculptor. See Breffny, B. and Hewetson, C. (1986) Irish Arts Review, III(3), 52-75.
Terence Hodgkinson, "Christopher Hewetson: An Irish Sculptor in Rome", The Walpole Society 34 (1952 - 1954) 42 - 54 at 50 and pl. XVIII.C
Anne Crookshank in Brian de Breffny, ed., The Irish World: The Art and Culture of the Irish People, (New York 1977) 146, 147, and 170
Brian de Breffny, ed., Ireland: A Cultural Encyclopaedia, (London 1983) 105 - 106
Id., "Christopher Hewetson", Concise Biography and Preliminary Catalogue Raisonné, Irish Arts Review 3 (1986) 52 - 75, no. 17a
E.P. Bowren and J.J. Rischel, Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, Philadelphia and Houston, 2000, 228-230, 254-255
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND, December 1947, Esdaile, Mrs. K.A.: Christopher Hewetson and his monument to Dr. Baldwin in Trinity College, Dublin, 134-135.