Tuesday 27 February 2024

Hewetson in Rome (Part 26). The English Prize.

 

Hewetson in Rome (Part 26). 

The busts from the captured ship the Westmoreland.

The English Prize.


Francis Basset, Baron Dunstanville (1757 - 1835).

Christopher Hewetson.

Terracotta.

Museo de la Real Academia Bellas Artes San Fernando, Madrid.

Taken from the Captured English Ship The Westmorland.


















For the restoration report in Spanish see -





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A Plaster bust of Francis Basset, Baron Dunstanville.

Christopher Hewetson.



Museo de la Real Academia Bellas Artes San Fernando, Madrid.

A Second Bust from the captured English ship The Westmorland.









For the Museum Restoration Report in Spanish see -









Note the treatment of the pupils as in the Ashmolean busts.




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Sir John Henderson, 5th Baronet of Fordell.

Terracotta.

Museo de la Real Academia Bellas Artes San Fernando, Madrid.

From the Captured English Ship The Westmorland.

















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Sir John Henderson, 1782.

Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.

Drawing. 

John Brown.




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