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HEWETSON, Christopher

Kilkeny, Ireland, 1737 - Rome, 1798

Thomas Brereton- Westfaling (1740- 1814)
Thomas Brereton- Westfaling (1740- 1814)

Vers 1780-1785

Bust, marble, white marble base

H. 0. 650 m (bust 0. 556 m); W. 0. 340 m; D. 0. 270 m

Paris, musée du Louvre, Département des sculptures

RF 4190

Sculpture

Probably done in Italy at Rome, circa 1780-1785.Comes from the library of the Kentchurch castle, Hertfordshire, Angleterre, owning by the Scudamore family. A copy of the bust was discovered by Philip Ward-Jackson, on a monument in Ross-on-Wye:
therefore, it was possible to identified Thomas Brereton-Westfaling, son of the reverend Richard Brereton. He got married in 1781 with Mary Westfaling and he took her name.
Commerce d'art, Londres, 1986
Acquired in 1987

18th century

Bibliography

Hodgkinson, 1952-1954, vol XXXIV, p.51

Breffny, 1986, vol.3, n°3, p.60, n°34

Catalogue des nouvelles acquisitions du musée (1984-1987) notice par Guilhem Scherf (portrait présumé de John II Scudamore)

Catalogue des nouvelles acquisitions (1988-1991), notice par Malcom Baker (identifié comme Thomas Brereton- Westfaling)

Geneviève Bresc-Bautier (sous la dir.), Les sculptures européennes du Musée du Louvre, Paris: Somogy édition- Musée du Louvre éditions, 2006