Christopher Hewetson

Life
?1739-98; b. Kilkenny; ed. Kilkenny College, and afterwards in Dublin; believed to have trained under Van Nost; settled in Rome, c1765; produced head of Clement XIV and other leading figures; signed his work ‘Christophorus Hewtson Hibernus’; port. by Anton Rahael Mengs; d. Rome.

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