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.

[edit] Works

• 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.