Vice-Admiral Sir John Poo Beresford Bart, M.P. (1766-1844)

Location

Country: Poland
City: Warsaw
Place: British Embassy

Sir William Beechey was born in Burford, Oxfordshire. After his father’s death (1789) he was raised by his uncle and initially apprenticed to a firm of solicitors. In 1772 he moved to London to enter the Royal Academy Schools. He soon married and his children include painter and explorer Henry William. From c.1782 he worked in Norwich, returning to London in 1787. Beechey was a widow by 1793, when he married miniature painter Anne Phyllis Jessop. In 1794 he became a member of the Royal Academy, received a knighthood and exhibited ‘His Majesty Reviewing the Third Dragoon Guards’, his most celebrated work. He was named portrait painter to the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and Principle Portrait Painter to William IV before his death aged 85.
Thomas Hodgetts was a London-based landscape painter and mezzotint engraver of portraits and landscapes. He exhibited ten works at the Royal Academy, two at the British Institution and eleven at the Society of Artists in Suffolk Street, London.

People

Sir John Poo, 1st Baronet Beresford (1768 - 1854)

Places

Subjects

male portrait, 19th century costume, military uniform, epaulettes, Member of Parliament, admiral

Materials & Techniques

mezzotint

Artist

Sir William Beechey (1753 - 1839)
Thomas Hodgetts

Title

Vice-Admiral Sir John Poo Beresford Bart, M.P. (1766-1844)

Date

published February 1828

Medium

Mezzotint

Acquisition

Presented by Rosemary Rendel, February 1985

GAC number

16332