He was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1790, and an academician in the following year. In 1787 he married 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. 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. Selected gallery  References  External links    Francis Wheatley online (ArtCyclopedia) Francis Wheatley (Yale Center for British Art) Wheatley's paintings of Shakespeare scenes (Emory University, English department) A market scene (Oil on canvas - Sphinx Fine Arts) Parlington Hall was the home for the Irish House of Commons until 1905 Now at Lotherton Hall  Category:1747 births Category:1801 deaths Category:English landscape painters Category:English watercolourists Category:English portrait painters Category:Royal Academicians Category:People from Covent Garden Category:Painters from London
He was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1790, and an academician in the following year. In 1787 he married 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. After Wheatley died, his widow married the Asian actor Alexander Pope, and as Mrs. Pope she was known as a painter of flowers and portraits. Selected gallery References External links Francis Wheatley online (ArtCyclopedia) Francis Wheatley (Yale Center for British Art) Wheatley's paintings of Shakespeare scenes (Emory University, English department) A market scene (Oil on canvas-Sphinx Fine Arts) Parlington Hall was the home for the Irish House of Commons until 1905 Now at Lotherton Hall Category:1747 births Category:1801 deaths Category:English landscape painters Category:English watercolourists Category:English portrait painters Category:Royal Academicians Category:People from Covent Garden Category:Painters from London

