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Gosset, Isaac
(b St Helier, Jersey, 2 May 1713; d London, 28 Nov 1799). English wood-carver and wax-modeller. He was the sixth son of Jean Gosset, a Huguenot from Normandy who had settled in Jersey, and he trained in London as a frame-carver and wax-modeller with his uncle Matthew Gosset (1683–1744) of Poland Street, Soho. He developed an ability to produce a startling likeness in wax of a sitter’s profile in as little as half an hour. His original models cost four guineas and were used to produce casts from which replicas were made and sold in oval frames for a guinea each. They were much copied and reproduced by James Tassie and Josiah Wedgwood.
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