John Laviers WHEATLEY
Born in in Abergavenny, the only son of Sir Zachariah Wheatley, he studied first under Stanhope FORBES and then at the Slade 1912-13 where he became an assistant teacher from 1920-25. He held appointments as Art Director in South Africa, Sheffield and London.
He was married to the artist Edith Grace WOLFE.
media
Painter in oil and watercolour, etcher, printmaker, draughtsman and portrait engraver
works and access
Works include: Waves Breaking on Rocks; A Valley in Dartmoor (1922); Bridge on Rocky Moorland Stream
exhibitions
NAG March 1914; RWS; Walker, Liverpool; Colnaghi; Cooling; G (82); GI; Goupil; I (4); L; LEI (12); NEAC (48), PP (1); RA (22); RHA (1); RSA (3) and abroad extensively.
memberships
ARA 1945
references
St Ives Times 27 Mar 1914
Benezit
Buckman Artists in Britain since 1945
Green Posing the Model
Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall (p297)
Johnson & Greutzner
RA Directory