Francis Wheatley (painter)

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	Venus and Eros: Francis Wheatley: Cupid's Visit-Detailed Description of Painting
		Francis Wheatley (1747-1801) was a painter of portraits, history and domestic subjects.
		It has been attributed to Francis Wheatley and is certainly from his circle.
		Venus and Eros: Francis Wheatley: Cupid's Visit-Detailed Description of Painting
	www.venusanderos.com /Wheatley.htm

	Shakespeare Illustrated The Artists Francis Wheatley
		Wheatley, a popular painter in his time, entered the schools of the Royal Academy in 1769 and first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1778.
		He contributed paintings to Macklin's Poets' Gallery, Woodmason's Irish Shakespeare Gallery, and Bowyer's Historical Gallery, as well as Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery.
	shakespeare.cc.emory.edu /illustrated_showartist.cfm?artistid=119

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Wheatley, Francis
		Wheatley was abroad in 1763, probably in the Low Countries and France, and in 1766 he made his first trip to Ireland.
		17); this may have been the portrait painter Benjamin Wilson or, less likely, the landscape painter Richard Wilson.
		In 1762, 1763 and 1765 he won prizes for drawing from the Society of Artists, and in 1769 he enrolled in the newly established Royal Academy Schools.
	www.artnet.com /library/09/0913/T091348.asp (232 words)

	Artdaily.com - The First Art Newspaper on the Net
		NEW HAVEN, CT.-This fall, the Yale Center for British Art presents an extraordinary exhibition tracing the brilliant and tumultuous career of late-eighteenth-century painter Francis Wheatley.
		The Worlds of Francis Wheatley has been organized by Angus Trumble, Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, and Cassandra Albinson, Assistant Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, Yale Center for British Art.
		Wheatley is best known to visitors to the Center for his group portraits, or “conversation pieces,” particularly the masterful The Oliver and Ward Families and The Browne Family.
	www.artdaily.com /section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=14794 (667 words)

	Henry Fuseli (1741-1825), Painter
		Royal Academicians (William Hodges; Sir Thomas Lawrence; James Wyatt; William Tyler; George Dance; Sir William Beechey; Charles Catton the Elder; Francis Wheatley; Thomas Sandby; Joseph Wilton; Edward Burch; John Inigo Richards; Ozias Humphry; Thomas...)
		His inclination towards the fantastic was given scope in his paintings for Bouydell's Shakespeare Gallery and his own Milton Gallery.
		The online database contains information on 84,967 works, 44,595 of which are illustrated; the National Portrait Gallery's collection includes over 330,000 works.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp01702 (181 words)

	John Opie (1761-1807), Portrait and history painter
		Royal Academicians (William Hodges; Sir Thomas Lawrence; James Wyatt; William Tyler; George Dance; Sir William Beechey; Charles Catton the Elder; Francis Wheatley; Thomas Sandby; Joseph Wilton; Edward Burch; John Inigo Richards; Ozias Humphry; Thomas...)
		He was also known as a painter of historical and literary subjects, especially for Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery.
		The online database contains information on 64,720 works, 43,628 of which are illustrated; the National Portrait Gallery's collection includes over 330,000 works.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp03371 (167 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Cardon, Anthony
		He entered the Royal Academy Schools on 3 November 1792 and was engaged by Paul Colnaghi to engrave, under the direction of Luigi Schiavonetti, three of the Cries of London after Francis Wheatley in 1794–6.
		The son of Antoine Alexandre Joseph Cardon (1739–1822), a painter and engraver in Brussels, he was persuaded by the troubled times to go to London in 1792.
		He was known to Joseph Farington, who noted some of his activities, such as his purchase of two paintings by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg for engraving (4 March 1805) and his defeat by Thomas Landseer in a ballot at the Royal Academy for Associate Engravers (10 Feb 1806).
	www.artnet.com /library/01/0140/T014012.asp (311 words)

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