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2 unusual facts about Christopher Hewetson


Christopher Hewetson

Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol (marble bust, c. 1778), National Portrait Gallery, London

John Deare

By his death in Rome in 1796 (after sleeping on a block of marble hoping for inspiration and catching a chill) Deare had married an Italian woman, who he left with their children as a widow and for whose benefit Deare's friends such as Vincenzo Pacetti and Christopher Hewetson posthumously disposed of his studio contents.



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