Biographical dictionary of medallists: coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, &c., ancient and modern, with references to their works B. C. 500-A. D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer ...

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HENNING, A. I. (Amser.). I859, Washington Irving, I783-I859,
American historian, A' 69.
HENNING, JOHN (B.D.M., Vol. IT, p. 477). This artist began
life as a carpenter, and did not take to art as a vocation until he
had reached the mature age of forty. His great work, which he
achieved in twelve years, was the restoration of the Parthenon and
Phygalian friezes. These he reproduced in miniature for sale.
Henning was born on 2. May I77I; his father Samuel Henning
was a carpenter and cabinet-maker. In the year I799 he made his
first attempt at modelling, after seeing some wax medallions at Sir
Henry Raeburn's studio at Edinburgh, where he had gone on a

Portrait of John Henning.
visit. His first Portrait-medallion was that of a comrade of his, A.
Woodrow, " a strong though a coarse likeness". Acquaintances
teased him to model their portraits, and soon, from his own immediate neighbourhood, sitters came to him to have their medallionportraits in wax.
Early in I8oo he made the acquaintance of a Mr James Monteith
at Glasgow, who induced him to leave the carpenter's bench and
follow his artistic tastes. From that date, his fame went on increas