A farm on the outskirts of a village

Details

Francis Wheatley, R.A. (1747-1801)
A farm on the outskirts of a village
signed indistinctly 'F Wheatley' (lower right)
pencil, grey ink and watercolour
8 x 11½ in. (21.5 x 29.2 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christies, London, 9 November 1976, lot 40, where purchased for the present collection.

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Lot Essay

A figure, portrait and landscape painter, after studying at Shipley's he entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1769; he eloped to Dublin with the wife of fellow artist J.A. Gresse, but was forced to return to England. He subsequently married his model Clara Maria Leigh. Many of his works were engraved, most notably the Cries of London.

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