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Benjamin Cheverton

Benjamin Cheverton 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. His reproducing machine, which was exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851, is now in the collection of the Science Museum, London. A large collection of his work is found in the Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

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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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  1. "Benjamin Cheverton - Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951". www.sculpture.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-08-21.
  2. "Machine for reproducing sculpture - Science Museum Group Collection". collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-08-21.
  3. "Idea Lab: Research at the AGO Investigating the Works of Benjamin Cheverton". Art Gallery of Ontario. Retrieved 2024-08-21.
  4. Cheverton, Benjamin. "Highgate Cemetery". Burial Grounds. Retrieved 15 October 2025.