John Henning

John Henning (2 May 1771 – 8 April 1851) was a Scottish sculptor who began his career as a carpenter. His masterpieces were the one-twentieth-scale models he created of the Parthenon and Bassae friezes. These took him twelve years to complete. Many others then copied this idea but he could not copyright the work of a long-dead artist, and could do nothing to prevent this. In 1810 he is listed as a "portrait modeller" living at 48 Rose Street in the First New Town in Edinburgh just north of Princes Street.

In 1811, John and Catherine moved to London where Henning saw the newly arrived Elgin Marbles in Burlington House and persuaded Lord Elgin to allow him to draw and copy them. Archibald died aged 59 in Manchester in 1864. He was named after the Scottish artist Archibald Skirving.