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Description: | inscr l. h. s. "GAVINUS / HAMILTON"; inscr r. h. s. "OPUS / CHRISTOPH: HEWETOSN / MDCCLXXXIIII" CRE HEWETSON, Christopher; (Irish; c. 1739-1798) LABEL "Hewetson spent over 30 years in Rome, building up an extensive practice in portraiture, particularly of British and Irish visitors on the Grand Tour. Hamilton (1723-1798), a history painter and archaeologist, was a graduate of the University of Glasgow. Appropriately the sculptor portrayed him with bare shoulders in imitation of antique Roman portraits." | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | PORTRAIT : MALE : BUST : PAINTER : NEO CLASSICISM : MG1 2007 : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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