Attributed to Francis Wheatley (1747-1801) - Oil on canvas - The Wolfe Family of Forenaughts House, Naas, County Kildare, Ireland, unsigned, 91cm x 112cm Provenance - By descent. The Wolfe family lived at Forenaughts House where this painting once hung. The most likely sitters are John Wolfe (1754-1816) and his wife and cousin Charlotte (married 1777, died 1787) with a daughter and two of their sons, perhaps John and Theobald. Francis Wheatley lived in Dublin 1779-1783, he is known to have worked in Kildare and his small whole length portraits are said to have been popular in Ireland. Here the detail of Georgian architecture framing the family suggesting their fashionable country house, is a formula Wheatley used. The careful painting of the trees, and the shadow in the right foreground leading the eye to the figures, is also typical of his work. In the distance there is a pastoral scene of a shepherd tending his flock; he sometimes included such rustic details in his portraits
Attributed to Francis Wheatley (1747-1801) - Oil on canvas - The Wolfe Family of Forenaughts House, Naas, County Kildare, Ireland, unsigned, 91cm x 112cm Provenance - By descent. The Wolfe family lived at Forenaughts House where this painting once hung. The most likely sitters are John Wolfe (1754-1816) and his wife and cousin Charlotte (married 1777, died 1787) with a daughter and two of their sons, perhaps John and Theobald. Francis Wheatley lived in Dublin 1779-1783, he is known to have worked in Kildare and his small whole length portraits are said to have been popular in Ireland. Here the detail of Georgian architecture framing the family suggesting their fashionable country house, is a formula Wheatley used. The careful painting of the trees, and the shadow in the right foreground leading the eye to the figures, is also typical of his work. In the distance there is a pastoral scene of a shepherd tending his flock; he sometimes included such rustic details in his portraits
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