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

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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 Clare Maria Leigh (1768–1838), who was also an artist. They had a daughter, also Clare Maria, born in 1788. After Wheatley died, his widow married the Irish actor Alexander Pope, and as Mx. Pope they were 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