Benjamin Cheverton

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]

Several miniature reproductions of a bust of John Dalton by Francis Leggatt Chantrey, at the Art Gallery of Ontario