John Wootton (1682-1764)

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  John Wootton

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  John Wootton , 1686-1765 Portrait of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond and Lennox and later Duke of Aubigny (1701-1750) oil on canvas, held in a British Baroque carved and gilded frame

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  Flying Childers held by a groom, with other figures, in a landscape with a cottage beyond

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  John Wootton (1682-1764)

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John Wootton Biography

(b Snitterfield, Warwicks, c. 1682; d London, 13 Nov 1764). English painter. He probably received some instruction from Jan Wyck in the 1690s, and he was possibly patronized from an early age by the aristocratic households of Beaufort and Coventry (as was Wyck), perhaps while working as a page to Lady Anne Somerset at Snitterfield House, Warwicks. However, there seems to be no real evidence for this save his early painted view of the house and the family’s later acquisition of many of his works. Joseph Farington saw a painting of Diana and the Nymphs (1707; untraced) at Antony House, Cornwall, but Wootton’s earliest extant dated work is the horse portrait Bonny Black (1711; Belvoir Castle, Leics). By this time he had begun to establish himself in London, having moved there before his first marriage, to Elizabeth Walsh, in 1706. He was a subscriber to the first English Academy of Painting and Drawing in 1711 and by 1717 had been elected a steward of the Virtuosi Club of St Luke’s.

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