Thomas Heaphy
(1775-1835), PainterSitter in 2 portraits
Artist associated with 47 portraits
Heaphy was apprenticed to the engraver R.M. Meadows, and in his spare time attended a drawing school in Bloomsbury. He first exhibited portraits at the Royal Academy in 1797 then spent a few years working in watercolour before returning to portrait painting. He painted Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold and was appointed portrait painter to the Princess of Wales. The Duke of Wellington invited Heaphy to accompany the British army through the Peninsular campaign. He painted portraits, and on his return he produced his most important work, a large watercolour of the Duke of Wellington giving orders to his staff before a battle, which included portraits of about fifty officers.
by Thomas Heaphy
watercolour, 1813-1814
NPG 1914(14)
by Thomas Heaphy
watercolour, 1813-1814
NPG 1914(15)
Sir George Townshend Walker, 1st Bt
by Thomas Heaphy
watercolour, 1813-1814
NPG 1914(16)
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
by Thomas Heaphy
watercolour, 1813
NPG 4176
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
by Thomas Heaphy
watercolour, 1813
NPG 1914(17)
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
by Thomas Heaphy
watercolour, 1813
NPG 1914(18)
by Thomas Heaphy
watercolour, 1813-1814
NPG 1914(20)
by Thomas Heaphy
pencil and watercolour, 1813-1814
NPG 1914(21)
by Thomas Heaphy
pencil and watercolour, 1813-1814
NPG 1914(24)
by Thomas Heaphy
pencil and watercolour, 1813-1814
NPG 1914(25)
by Thomas Heaphy
pencil and watercolour, 1813-1814
NPG 1914(26)
by Thomas Heaphy
pencil and watercolour, 1813-1814
NPG 1914(27)
by Thomas Heaphy
pencil, circa 1813-1814
NPG 1914(29)
by Thomas Heaphy
pencil, circa 1813-1814
NPG 1914(30)
by Thomas Heaphy
pencil, circa 1813-1814
NPG 1914(31)
Unknown man (Spanish Grenadier)
by Thomas Heaphy
pencil, circa 1813-1814
NPG 1914(32)
Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales
by Thomas Heaphy
watercolour, 1815
NPG 1914(19)
Leopold I, King of the Belgians
by Thomas Heaphy
watercolour, 1816
NPG 1914(28)
Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere
by Thomas Heaphy
watercolour, 1817
NPG 4177
William Carr Beresford, Viscount Beresford
by William Say, published by Edward Orme, after Thomas Heaphy
mezzotint, published 1815
NPG D11379
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