Christopher Hewetson

Christopher Hewetson (1739–1798) ( Stefano Tofanelli , around 1784)

Christopher Hewetson ( Christophorus Hewtson Hibernus , Christophoro irlandese ) (* around 1739 in Thomastown , County Kilkenny, † 1798 in Rome ) was an Irish sculptor who worked in Rome from 1765.

Life

He was the third son of Christopher Hewetson, Esq., Of Thomastown and Dangan (Kilkenny) and his second wife, Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas Hewetson, Esq., Of Cloughsutton, County Carlow . His great, great, great grandfather was Rev. Christopher Hewetson (around 1525), the vicar of Swords .

He attended Kilkenny College and studied in Dublin , probably under John van Nost the Younger . The Provost of Trinity College Richard Baldwin died here in 1758, leaving the university with £ 80,000.

In 1765 he (like the American painter Henry Benbridge ) went to Rome for further training. Here he belonged to the circle around Anton Raphael Mengs and Azara . He was friends with Giovanni Pichler .

For his main work, the nine-foot-high marble tomb of Provost Richard Baldwin for Trinity College, which took nine years of work between 1772 and 1781 and erected in 1784, he received a thousand pounds plus 500 pounds for transport. In 1786 he exhibited the bust (No. 531) of the Scottish painter Gavin Hamilton (1723-1798) at the Royal Academy . In 1788 he also made the Leibniz bust, which was exhibited in August Wilhelm Rehberg's house in 1789 . It then came to the Leibniz Temple , where it was later replaced by a copy. In 1790 he was again an exhibitor at the Royal Academy with his bust No. 520.

He is buried in the Protestant cemetery in Rome .

More work

• 1772: Bust of William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh , Windsor Castle
• 1773: Bronze bust of José Nicolás de Azara , Bibl. Mazarine, Paris
• 1779: Tomb for Martha Swinburne, San Tommaso di Canterbury , Rome
• 1782: Bust of Anton Raphael Mengs , 1922 in the art trade, whereabouts unknown
• 1783: Busts of Friederike Sophie von Inn- und Knyphausen born. by Wreech, used Gfn. Dönhoff (1732–1784), marble copy of the plaster original in 1924 at Tamsel Castle near Küstrin and her husband of Baron Dodo Heinrich von Innhausen and Knyphausen (1729–1789), both busts in Tamsel Castle until 1945
• 1784: Bust of the Grand Duchess Paul of Russia, the former Tsarina Maria Feodorovna , Gatchina Castle , Russia
• 1787: Tomb for Cardinal Giovanni Battista Rezzonico , brother of Pope Clement XIII. , San Nicola in Carcere , Rome
• 1794: Bust of Count Anton Günther von Oldenburg (r. 1603–1667), white marble (part of the cenotaph for the count), vestibule of the Evangelical Lutheran. St. Lamberti Church Oldenburg.
• 1797: Bust of Giovanni Pichler , Museo Capitolino , Rome
• before 1799: bust of Angelika Kauffmann , parish church in Schwarzenberg (Vorarlberg)

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  Leibniz bust (copy)

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  Bust of Angelika Kauffmann

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  Bust of Anton Günther von Oldenburg

literature

• Thieme-Becker : General Lexicon of Fine Artists , Volume 17, Leipzig 1924, p. 13
• Terence Hodgkinson (1913–1999): Christopher Hewetson, an Irish Sculptor in Rome ; In: Walpole Society , 34 (1954/55), pp. 42-54
• Brian de Breffny: Christopher Hewetson, Concise Biography and Preliminary Catalog Raisonné, in: Irish Arts Review 3 (1986), pp. 52-75.
• John Ingamells: A dictionary of British and Irish travelers in Italy, 1701-1800 ; 1997, pp. 494f, ISBN 0-300-07165-5

supporting documents

1. ↑ John Hewetson: Christopher Hewetson, Sculptor ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Notes and Queries , October 13, 1906, p. 285, doi : 10.1093 / nq / s10-VI.146.285-b (currently not available) 
2. ↑ http://www.dia.ie/architects/view/5423
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ http://www.tcd.ie/artcollections/assets/img/collection/highlights/Baldwin%20Memorial%20by%20Hewetson.jpg  ???
5. ↑ Ralph Hennings et al. Torben Koopmann: St. Lamberti Church in Oldenburg, Berlin / Munich 2011, p. 64f.
6. ↑ http://arthistorians.info/hodgkinsont

Web links

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• http://www.museumstuff.com/learn/topics/Christopher_Hewetson::sub::Works
• http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/hewetson_christopher.html