Benjamin Cheverton
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Benjamin Cheverton (1796 – 1876)[1] was an English sculptor and inventor. With the assistance of John Isaac Hawkins, he designed and operated a novel pantograph machine to create detailed miniature reproductions of sculptures, primarily busts of historical and mythological figures by contemporary sculptors like Francis Leggatt Chantrey, Louis-François Roubiliac, and Joseph Durham.[1] His reproducing machine, which was exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851, is now in the collection of the Science Museum, London.[2] A large collection of his work is found in the Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario.[3]
He died in February 1876 and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.[4]
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