Bewick executed a large cartoon of some of the figures in the Elgin Marbles at the request of the German poet Goethe.
He also worked as a copyist, so successfully that Sir Thomas Lawrence sent him to copy Michelangelo's frescoes of the Sistine Chapel in Rome in 1826.
Forced to retire by illness, Bewick spent his last 20 years in north-east England.
Life and Letters of William Bewick were published by Thomas Landseer, the brother of the famous painter, in 1871.
They form a source for Haydon's circle and include a character study of William Hazlitt, whom Bewick knew well.