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Francis Wheatley

Francis Wheatley

A Ploughman

Francis Wheatley

A View of Glen Molaur

Francis Wheatley

A Gentleman and his Dog in a Landscape

Francis Wheatley

The Comedy of Errors', Act I, Scene 1, the Rescue of Aemilia from the Shipwreck

Francis Wheatley

Adelaide

Francis Wheatley

An Old Fisherwoman with Two Women Digging for Bait

Francis Wheatley

Country Scene: Figures by a Cottage Door and Cattle in a Stream

Francis Wheatley

Donnybrook Fair

Francis Wheatley

Donnybrook Fair, 1782

Francis Wheatley

Fisherfolk with Baskets and Nets

Francis Wheatley

Henry Addington, Later 1st Viscount Sidmouth

Francis Wheatley

Lismore Castle, Ireland

Francis Wheatley

Morning

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Mr. Bentley

Francis Wheatley

Mrs. Barclay and Her Children

Francis Wheatley

Mrs. Stevens

Francis Wheatley

Mrs. Bentley

Francis Wheatley

Noon

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Olivia Returns to Her Family

Francis Wheatley

Portrait of a Man, called George Basil Woodd

Francis Wheatley

Portrait of a Man, Possibly Mr. Barclay

Francis Wheatley

Portrait of a Sportsman with His Son

Francis Wheatley

Portrait of an Unknown man

Francis Wheatley

Soldier with Country Women Selling Ribbons, near a Military Camp

Francis Wheatley

Night

Francis Wheatley

The Medway at Rochester

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The Mistletoe Bough

Francis Wheatley

The Oliver and Ward Families

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The Rustic Lover

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The Salmon Leap, Leixlip

Francis Wheatley

Traveling Potter outside a Cottage

Francis Wheatley

Valentine rescuing Silvia from Proteus, from Shakespeare's "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," Act V, Scene 4, the Outlaws' Cave

Francis Wheatley

View on the Medway

Francis Wheatley

The Browne Family

Francis Wheatley

St. Vincent's Rock, Clifton, Bristol with Hotwell's Spring House in the Distance

Francis Wheatley

Soldiers and Country Women

Francis Wheatley

Portrait of Captain Arthur Phillip RN

Francis Wheatley

Spring

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Winter

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Irish House of Commons

Francis Wheatley

Portrait of Henry Grattan; MP for Dublin (1806–1820)

Francis Wheatley

Portrait of Sir Henry Pigot

Francis Wheatley

Preparing for Market

Francis Wheatley

A Fair on the Outskirts of Dublin

Francis Wheatley

The Dublin Volunteers on College Green

Francis Wheatley RA (London 1747 – 28 June 1801) was an English portrait and landscape painter.

Life and work
Soldier with Country Women Selling Ribbons, near a Military Camp

Wheatley was born at Wild Court, Covent Garden, London, the son of a master tailor. He studied at William Shipley's drawing school and the Royal Academy, and won several prizes from the Society of Arts. He assisted in the decoration of Vauxhall, and aided John Hamilton Mortimer in painting a ceiling for Lord Melbourne at Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire.[1]

In his youth, his life was irregular and dissipated. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1778, built up a good practice and was praised by the critics. But he fell in with extravagant company and was forced to flee his creditors: so he eloped to Ireland with Elizabeth Gresse, wife of a fellow artist John Alexander Gresse (1741–1794).[1]

In the summer of 1779 he was in Dublin with Elizabeth whom he passed off as his wife, and established himself there as a portrait-painter, executing, among other works, the best-known interior of the Irish House of Commons. He also painted the review of the Dublin regiments of the Irish Volunteers in College Green in November 1779, the basis for a best-selling print bought by numerous Irish Patriot supporters. He was careful to include the grandees of Dublin and also exotic visitors such as Princess Dashkov.[1]

The circumstances of his private life were revealed, and he returned to London. He produced small landscapes, portraits, or street scenes, and began to work in imitation of the French painter Jean-Baptiste Greuze. His scene from the Gordon Riots of 1780 was engraved by James Heath; this was noted as one of his best, but was lost to a fire. He painted several subjects for Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, designed illustrations to Bell's edition of the poets, and practised to some small extent as an etcher and mezzotint-engraver. It is, however, as a painter, in both oil and water-color, of landscapes and rustic subjects that Wheatley is best remembered. He was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1790, and an academician in the following year.[1]

He married in 1787 one of his most popular models, the young Clara Maria Leigh (1768–1838), who was also an artist. They had a daughter, also Clara Maria, born in 1788.[1] After Wheatley died, his widow married the Irish actor Alexander Pope, and as Mrs Pope she was known as a painter of flowers and portraits.[2]

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Wheatley, Francis". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Mary Webster, ‘Pope , Clara Maria (bap. 1767, d. 1838)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 21 March 2015

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