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Sir William Beechey

1753–1839

Portrait of Sir Francis Ford’s Children Giving a Coin to a Beggar Boy exhibited 1793
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Historic and Modern British Art

Biography

Sir William Beechey (12 December 1753 – 28 January 1839) was a British portraitist during the golden age of British painting.

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Joseph Nollekens

Sir William Beechey
exhibited 1812

James P. Johnstone

Sir William Beechey
date not known

Alexander P. Johnstone

Sir William Beechey
c.1790–5

Thomas Law Hodges

Sir William Beechey
?exhibited 1795

Portrait of Sir Francis Ford’s Children Giving a Coin to a Beggar Boy

Sir William Beechey
exhibited 1793
On display at Tate Britain part of Historic and Modern British Art

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A Bench of Artists

Thomas Rowlandson
1776
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