WHEATLEY Prof. John Laviers A.R.A., R.W.S, N.E.A.C.
(1892 - 1955)
"Still Life
with Hydrangeas"
Oil painting on
canvas. Signed. Circa 1935
Provenance – From a collection of the Artist's work`
15 1/8" x
19" IMAGE
Prof. John Wheatley was a painter in oil and watercolour and was
also an etcher and engraver. He was born
on 23rd January 1892 at Abergavenny, the son of Sir Zachariah
Wheatley and Edith Grace Wolfe A.R.W.S.He was
educated at West Monmouthshire County School; Taunton School; University
College, London; under Stanhope Forbes and Walter Sickert;
and at the Slade School. He was a director and curator of the Gallery of
British Sports and Pastimes from
1948 to 1950; a director of the City Art Galleries, Sheffield (1938-1947),
assistant teacher at the Slade School (1920-1925), previously director of the
National Gallery of South Africa and Michaelis
Prof. of Fine Art and Architecture at the University of Capetown
from 1925 to 1937, and Member of the
Royal Fine Art Commission since
1946. From 1918 to 1920 he was an
official War Artist. In 1917 he was elected Member of the New English Art Club
and in 1943 he became an Associate Member of the Royal Society of Painters in
Watercolour, rising to full Membership in 1947.
He became a Associate Member of the Royal Academy
in 1945. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the New English Art Club, the Royal
Society of Painters in Watercolours, Colnaghi &
Co. Galleries, Cooling and Sons Gallery, Grosvenor Gallery, Glasgow Institute
of the Fine Arts, Goupil Gallery, the International
Society, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, Leicester Gallery, the Royal Society of
Portrait Painters, the Royal Society of Painter Etchers and Engravers, the
Royal Hibernian Academy and the Royal Scottish Academy. Work by John Wheatley
is in the British
Museum, the Tate Gallery,
the National Gallery of Wales, the National Gallery of South Africa, Manchester Art Gallery,
Rutherston Collection Manchester, Ashmolean Museum,
Christ Church Oxford, University College London, the Imperial War
Museum, Athanaeum Museum and Magdalen College Oxford.
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