page_title: Christopher Hewetson
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Christopher Hewetson / Works
caption_attribution_description: Bust signed and dated 1778. Museum label says: "Sir Thomas Gascoigne (1745-1810) was a cultivated Yorkshire landowner who supported the cause of American Independence. He is shown bare-chested in the classical manner. Hewetson was an Irish sculptor working in Rome and he made this bust along with a duplicate for friends of Sir Thomas near Leeds. Rome; cast by Luigi Valadier, Bronze. "
context_page_description: Christopher Hewetson was a neoclassical sculptor of portrait busts. Born in Ireland, he was active in Rome.
context_section_description: Charles Towneley (marble bust, 1769), Department of Medieval & Modern Europe, British Museum,
  Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet (bust, 1769), National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
  Pope Clement XIV (marble busts, two in 1772, one in 1776), several almost identical copies which at various times have been in Ammerdown (Somerset); Gorhambury (Herts); Beningbrough Hall (Yorks); Penrice and Margam castles, near Swansea; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and  the Center of British Art of Yale University (New Haven, USA)
  Thomas Mansel Talbot (marble bust, 1773), Victoria and Albert Museum, London
  Thomas Mansel Talbot (chalk bust), Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa, Italy.
  Luigi III Gonzaga it:Luigi III Gonzaga (marble bust, 1776), Museo di Roma in Palazzo Braschi, Rome
  Maria Maddalena Morelli it:Maria Maddalena Morelli (bust, 1776), Museo di Roma in Palazzo Braschi, Rome
  Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol (marble bust, c. 1778), National Portrait Gallery, London
  Sir Thomas Gascoigne, 8th Baronet of Parlington (bronze bust, c. 1778), Victoria and Albert Museum, London
  Martha Swinburne (marble medallion in funerary monument, 1779), Chiesa di San Tommaso, Rome
  Unknown Gentleman-Robert Adams (c. 1780), Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
  José Nicolás de Azara (bronze bust, c. 1780), Institut de France, Paris
  José Nicolás de Azara (marble bust, 1781), Protomoteca Capitolina, Rome
  Anton Raphael Mengs (marble bust, 1781), Protomoteca Capitolina, Rome
  Gavin Hamilton (bust, 1784), University Art Collection, Glasgow
  Thomas Brereton-Westfaling, 1740 - 1814 (c. 1785), The Louvre, Paris
  Richard Baldwin (marble monument, 1784), Examination Hall, Trinity College, Dublin
  Cardinal Giovanni Battista Rezzonico (marble monument, 1787), Chiesa di San Nicola in Carcere, Rome
  Gottfried Leibniz (bust, 1787 - 1790), Reception hall of the Technologie Centrum, Hannover
  Anton Raphael Mengs (bronze bust cast by Francesco Righetti, 1792), Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
  Count Anton Günther of Oldenburg (bust, white marble, 1794, part of the Count's monument), vestibule of St. Lambert Church, Oldenburg, Germany.
  Giovanni Pichler (marble bust, 1797), Museo Capitolino, Rome
  Thomas Westfaling (bust), St Mary, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, U.K.
  Mr and Mrs Henry Swinburne (bust), Gascoigne bequest at Lotherton Hall, Leeds
  Alcyone and Ceyx (relief), Gascoigne bequest at Lotherton Hall, Leeds
caption: Christopher Hewetson: Bust of Sir Thomas Gascoigne, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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