Musée No:286.014 insect He studied with Couture at

He studied with Couture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and then spent two years with Millet (and no doubt Charles Francois Daubigny) at the Barbizon School

From 1852 onward he came under the influence of Gustave Courbet

Dewing’s patron Charles Lang Freer helped the artist keep his affair hidden from his wife

It is where she met the painter and etcher Willem Witsen

Musée No:286.014 insect He studied with Couture atEggs: Great Britain Artist: William Hewitson Date: 1833 William Chapman Hewitson, (1806 1878), was a British naturalist. A wealthy collector, he was particularly devoted to beetles, butterflies and moths and, also, to birds' nests and eggs. His collection of butterflies, collected by him as well as purchased from travellers throughout the world, was one of the largest and most important of his time. He contributed to and published many works on