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WHEATLEY, FRANCIS (1747–1801)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 583 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WHEATLEY, See also:FRANCIS (1747–1801) , See also:English Portrait and landscape painter, was See also:born in 1747 at See also:Wild See also:Court, Covent See also:Garden, See also:London. He studied at See also:Shipley's See also:drawing-school and the Royal See also:Academy, and won several prizes from the Society of Arts. He assisted in the decoration of See also:Vauxhall, and aided See also:Mortimer in See also:painting a See also:ceiling for See also:Lord See also:Melbourne at Brocket See also:Hall (See also:Hertfordshire). In youth his See also:life was irregular and dissipated. He eloped to See also:Ireland with the wife of Gresse, a See also:brother artist, and established himself in See also:Dublin as a portrait-painter, executing, among other See also:works, an interior of the Irish See also:House of See also:Commons. His See also:scene from the London Riots of 178o was admirably engraved by See also:Heath. He painted several subjects for See also:Boydell's See also:Shakespeare See also:Gallery, designed illustrations to See also:Bell's edition of the poets, and practised to some small extent as an etcher and See also:mezzotint-engraver. It is, however, as a painter, in both oil and See also:water-See also:colour, of landscapes and rustic subjects that Wheatley is best remembered. He was elected an See also:associate of the Royal Academy in 1790, and an academician in the following See also:year. He died on the 28th of See also:June 18o1. His wife, afterwards Mrs See also:Pope, was known as a painter of See also:flowers and portraits.

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