Henry Webber (1754-1826)
Sculptor, modeller to Wedgwood, and the head of the Ornamental Department at Etruria from 1785 to 1806. He was the son of a Swiss sculptor, and a pupil of John Bacon. He was recommended to Josiah Wedgwood by Sir Joshua Reynolds, arriving at Etruria in June 1782. By January 1785 he had signed a seven year contract with the factory, and in 1787 was sent to Rome - '….for the purpose of making Models Drawings and other improvements in the Arts of Modelling and Designing for the benefit of ….. Josiah Wedgwood.' He was directly involved with the modelling of the bas-relief figures for the reproduction, in Jasper, of the Portland also known as Barberini Vase.
