(Post under construction).
Christopher Hewetson and the Swinburnes in Rome.
The Mural Monument to Martha Swinburne.
At the Venerable English College in Rome
The following black and white images from -
https://catalogo.beniculturali.it/detail/HistoricOrArtisticProperty/1200230124
On 8 September 1778 Martha Swinburne died in Rome, aged ten, and Christopher Hewetson was commissioned to sculpt a monument to her memory. The long inscription, ‘penned by her disconsolate father’ Henry, offended the Jesuit Robert Thorpe because it made no mention of religion but was concerned only with her accomplishments in history, music, languages and geography which Swinburne, ‘indulging an innocent pride’, had felt compelled to record. At any rate, the tablet was mounted in the chapel of the Venerable English College, Rome, where it remains.
For the Swinburne's visit to Rome see -
https://diocesehn.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Northern-Catholic-History-No52-2011.pdf
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The Bronze Busts of Henry and Martha Swinburne at Lotherton Hall, Leeds.
Almost certainly cast by Luigi Valadier sometimes Valladier. (1726 - 85).
Valadier working in Rome from 1760
He had a large workshop employing numerous craftsmen close to the Piazza di Spagna.
Committed suicide - drowning in the Tiber,
Henry Swinburne (1743 - 1803).
66 cms.
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