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Surname	Verschaffen	Alternative Surname	Verschaffelt
First Name	Peter Anton	Initial of Surname	V
Year of Birth/Baptism	1710	Flourished
Year of Death	1793
Biographical Details	As chief sculptor to the Elector Palatine, he chose, perhaps surprisingly, to exhibit at the Free Society in 1765 (3). Lord Rockingham bought his busts of Homer and Mithridates from John Shackleton in March 1762 (1, 2). George Bubb Doddington recorded in his diary for 27 June 1752 ‘Mr Verschaffelts dined here, and I paid him 100 l. in part, for his statue’. No information has emerged on this work. (Inf. Gordon Balderston) Literary References: Wyndham 1764, 146; Gunnis 1968, 409; Penny 1991 (2), 15, 32 n68