The British painter Francis Wheatley, son of a tailor, received formal training in painting, including at the Royal Academy of Arts. He received his first awards at an early age and developed throughout his life into one of Britain's most famous portrait and landscape painters. His exciting private life temporarily puts his artistic work in the background. His ambitious career was thrown off course when he ran away with the wife of a contemporary artist. He flees with her from the urban environment of London to rural Ireland. The social conventions of the time sharply condemn such behaviour.
In Ireland, however, Wheatley quickly made a name for himself as a portraitist and created one of his most famous works, the Irish House of Commons. The picture shows a detailed and vivid depiction of the members of the Irish Parliament in 1780. Otherwise, the portrait artist's clientele consists of successful middle-class merchants and bankers who like to be portrayed as country noblemen. Wheatley also works a lot in nature and outdoors, where he finds his motifs in the rural and poor population of Ireland outside Dublin. He collected a lot of inspiration, which he later used in London in his historical and rural art prints. During his travels across the island of Ireland he produced drawings, watercolours and oil paintings of important mansions and estates in Ireland.
When the secret of his private life is revealed, he returns to London. There, in addition to genre and portrait work, he continued to dedicate himself to landscape painting and the depiction of street scenes. In doing so he orientates himself on the work of Jean Baptiste Greuze. The French artist is associated with the rococo style and motifs of bourgeois life, which, however, are no longer contemporary in the mid-18th century. They are opposed to the ideas of the Enlightenment and go out of fashion. Wheatley paints various motifs for Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery. The gallery is designed to promote English history painting and is to culminate in an illustrated edition of the literary works of William Shakespeare, which are becoming popular again. Wheatley contributes illustrations for scenes in "All's Well, the Ends Well", the "Comedy of Errors" and "Love's Labour's Lost", among others. The audience is enthusiastic about the illustrations of Shakespeare's scenes. The reproduction of his works as art prints helped Wheatley to artistic success. He works mainly with watercolours and oil paints, but also experiments with mezzotints and makes etchings.
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.jpg "A Family Group, the Father Seated, the Mother and Daughter Standing, in an Interior, 18th Century by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Mary Margaret Wood and two of her daughters, 1787 by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "The Encampment at Brighton, Scotland by Francis Wheatley")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1119147).jpg "Portrait of a country girl by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "The Oliver and Ward Families in a Garden, c.1788 by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Donnybrook Fair, 1782 by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "George and Mary Browne with their Five Elder Children, c.1773-4 by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "The Browne Family by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "New Mackerel, New Mackerel, Plate 5 from The Cries of London by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Henry Addington, Later 1st Viscount Sidmouth by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Soldier with Country Women Selling Ribbons near a Military Camp, 1788 by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Evening, 1799 by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Valentine rescuing Silvia from Proteus, from Shakespeare")
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.jpg "Young Women Discovering a Cat Has Caught the Bird from the Cage by William Ward")
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.jpg "Young Marlow and Miss Hardcastle: A Scene from She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Winter Fuel by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Rustic Benevolence, 1791 by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "The Pet Robin by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Love and Charity by Francis Wheatley")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1629540).jpg "The Christening by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Country Scene: Figures by a Cottage Door and Cattle in a Stream by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Country Scene: Figures by a Cottage Door and Cattle in a Stream by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "The Return from Market, 1786, 1938 by Francis Wheatley")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1132516).jpg "Portrait of Lord Spencer Hamilton by Francis Wheatley")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-546947).jpg "The Death of King Richard II, c.1792-93 by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Valentine rescuing Silvia from Proteus, from William Shakespeare")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Man, called George Basil Woodd by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Olivia Returns to Her Family by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "An Old Fisherwoman with Two Women Digging for Bait by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "The Saithwaite Family by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "The Salmon Leap, Leixlip by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Strawberries, Scarlet Strawberries, Plate 9 from The Cries of London by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Act V, Scene III of the play She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "View on the Medway by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Illustration to Jean-Jacques Rousseau")
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.jpg "A Gentleman and his Dog in a Landscape by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Lismore Castle, Ireland by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Man, Called George Basil Woodd by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Noon by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "The Little Shepherdess by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "The return of the sailor, interior of the cottage: bedroom, with the wife and mother lying in bed, the only furniture in the room, with bare brick walls by Francis Wheatley")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1172874).jpg "Woodcutters with their Cart Resting in a Woodland Glade by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "The Mistletoe Bough by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Meeting of Soldiers on College Green in Dublin (The Volunteers of the City and County of Dublin) by Joseph Collyer")
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.jpg "Morning by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "The Oliver and Ward Families by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Henry and Jenny by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Rustic Hours: Night (engraved by H. Gillbank) by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Peas by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Mrs. Bentley by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Benjamin Bond Hopkins by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "The Salmon Leap, Leixlip by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Captain Stevens by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Mr Thrale by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "The Ferry by Francis Wheatley")
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.jpg "Cherries by Francis Wheatley")
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