Benjamin Cheverton (1796 – 1876) was an English sculptor and

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. 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

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of 1851, is now in the collection of the

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. A large collection of his work is found in the Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

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