John Opie

John Opie

1761 — 1807

British historical and portrait painter (1761-1807)

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Works

A Council Chamber (The Night Brawl with Cassio and Rodrigo/disturbing of Othello and Desdemona from William Shakespeare's 'Othello', Act II, sc. iii)

A Council Chamber (The Night Brawl with Cassio and Rodrigo/disturbing of Othello and Desdemona from William Shakespeare's 'Othello', Act II, sc. iii)

John Opie Petworth House

A Country Girl

A Shepherd Boy

John Opie Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Amelia Alderson, Mrs John Opie (1769-1853)

Amelia Alderson, Mrs John Opie (1769-1853)

Amelia Alderson, Mrs John Opie (1769-1853)

Amelia Alderson, Mrs John Opie (1769-1853)

Boadicea Haranguing The Britons

Boadicea Haranguing The Britons

Damon and Musidora, from Thomson's Seasons - Summer (1727)

Damon and Musidora, from Thomson's Seasons - Summer (1727)

John Opie Petworth House

George Dempster of Dunnichen, 1732 - 1818. Agriculturist and Member of Parliament

George Dempster of Dunnichen, 1732 - 1818. Agriculturist and Member of Parliament

John Opie Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Henry Fuseli

John Opie National Portrait Gallery

John Gillies, 1747 - 1836. Historiographer Royal of Scotland

John Gillies, 1747 - 1836. Historiographer Royal of Scotland

John Opie Scottish National Portrait Gallery

John Gurney Jr., the Little Flute Player

John Gurney Jr., the Little Flute Player

John Opie Yale University Art Gallery

Portrait of ?Josias Rowley (1765-1842), later Vice-Admiral and Baronet

Portrait of ?Josias Rowley (1765-1842), later Vice-Admiral and Baronet

John Opie National Gallery of Ireland

Portrait of a Lady in the Character of Cressida

Portrait of a Lady in the Character of Cressida

Portrait of Peter Pindar

Portrait of Peter Pindar

John Opie Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Self-portrait

Street Singer and Child

Street Singer and Child

John Opie Cleveland Museum of Art

Study of a Classical Female Figure

Study of a Classical Female Figure

Supposed Portrait of James Barry (1741-1806), Artist

Supposed Portrait of James Barry (1741-1806), Artist

John Opie National Gallery of Ireland

William Siddons

William Siddons

Francesco Bartolozzi

Francesco Bartolozzi

John Opie National Portrait Gallery

Portrait of a Woman (Miss Frances Winnicobe ?)

Portrait of a Woman (Miss Frances Winnicobe ?)

William Matthews (1722 - 1799)

William Matthews (1722 - 1799)

John Wolcot

John Opie National Portrait Gallery

Mary Wollstonecraft (Mrs William Godwin)

Mary Wollstonecraft (Mrs William Godwin)

Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man (Self-portrait?)

Portrait of a man (Self-portrait?)

The Peasant’s Family

The Peasant’s Family

Mary Bunn, Mrs John Opie I (later Mrs. Edwards)

Mary Bunn, Mrs John Opie I (later Mrs. Edwards)

Mary Delany (née Granville)

Mary Delany (née Granville)

Mary Granville, Mrs Delany (1700-88)

Mary Granville, Mrs Delany (1700-88)

Thomas Holcroft

Thomas Holcroft

John Opie National Portrait Gallery

Colonel, Dr John Matthews, MP (1755-1826), aged 29

Colonel, Dr John Matthews, MP (1755-1826), aged 29

The Card Players: Pam, Flush and Loo

The Card Players: Pam, Flush and Loo

John Opie Petworth House

Thomas Abraham of Gurrington, Devon

Thomas Abraham of Gurrington, Devon

John Opie

John Opie National Portrait Gallery

John Opie, 1761 - 1807. Artist (Self-portrait)

John Opie, 1761 - 1807. Artist (Self-portrait)

John Opie Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Portr. of a young man

Portr. of a young man

Master William Opie

Master William Opie

Self-portrait

John Opie Scottish National Gallery

Henry Le Mesurier (1746-1792)

Henry Le Mesurier (1746-1792)

Portrait of the Artist

Portrait of the Artist

Portrait of John Webb.

Portrait of John Webb.

Charles Macklin

Charles Macklin

John Opie National Portrait Gallery

The Artist’s Mother

The Artist’s Mother

Self-portrait

John Opie Dulwich Picture Gallery

An Officer in the East India Uniform of the 74th (Highland) Regiment, Previously Called Colonel Donald Macleod

An Officer in the East India Uniform of the 74th (Highland) Regiment, Previously Called Colonel Donald Macleod

Mrs S.W. Reynolds

Mrs S.W. Reynolds

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft

John Opie National Portrait Gallery

Amelia Opie

John Opie National Portrait Gallery

Henry Bone

John Opie National Portrait Gallery

Portrait of a Man

Portrait of a Man

John Opie Museo del Prado

Thomas Girtin

John Opie National Portrait Gallery

Bildnis einer älteren Dame

Bildnis einer älteren Dame

John Opie Neue Pinakothek

Presumed Portrait of Thomas Girtin (1775-1802), Artist

Presumed Portrait of Thomas Girtin (1775-1802), Artist

John Opie National Gallery of Ireland

The Fugitive

John Opie Rhode Island School of Design Museum

The Angry Father or The Discovery of the Clandestine Correspondence

The Angry Father or The Discovery of the Clandestine Correspondence

John Opie Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Edmund Lenthal Swifte

Edmund Lenthal Swifte

PORTRAIT OF CAPTAIN PHILIP BEAVER R.N (1766 - 1813)

PORTRAIT OF CAPTAIN PHILIP BEAVER R.N (1766 - 1813)

Thomas Holcroft

Thomas Holcroft

John Opie National Portrait Gallery

William Henry West Betty

William Henry West Betty

John Opie National Portrait Gallery

Self-portrait

Samuel William Reynolds

Samuel William Reynolds

John Opie National Portrait Gallery

A Cornishman

A Girl with a Basket of Flowers

Alcibiades (fragment of 'Timon of Athens')

John Opie Bolton Museum

Amelia Alderson Opie (1769–1853), Writer, the Artist's Second Wife

Amelia Alderson, the Artist's second Wife

John Opie Ashmolean Museum

Ann Bellet

John Opie The Box

Boy with a Hoop

Captain James Bull

John Opie musée royal de Cornouailles

Captain James of Marazion

John Opie musée royal de Cornouailles

Charles James Fox (1749–1806)

Children by the Fireside

Colonel Adenbroke

John Opie Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery

Courtship in the Park

Crisp Molineux (1730–1792)

Daniel Pinder, Deputy

John Opie Guildhall Art Gallery

Doctor Burton

Dr John Wolcott ('Peter Pindar') (1738–1819)

John Opie musée royal de Cornouailles

Dr Richard Valpy (1754–1836)

Elizabeth Searle as Miranda

Family Group

Figure Study

Francis Fowke (1753–1819), of Boughrood Castle

Francis Smith

John Opie Ashmolean Museum

George Dempster of Dunnichen

Gil Blas Binds Leonarda to the Leg of a Table

John Opie The Box

Gil Blas Taking the Key from Dame Leonarda in the Cavern of the Banditti

John Opie Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery

Girl Reading a Letter

John Opie Nationalmuseum

Girl with a Cat

Head of a Gentleman

John Opie Penlee House Museum and Gallery

Head of a Girl

Henry and Frances Read of Walthamstow

John Opie musée royal de Cornouailles

Isaac Milner (1750–1820), Fellow (1776), President (1788), Dean of Carlisle

James Brodie, Son of the 21st Laird

James Rusden (1778–1836), RN

John Bellet, Junior

John Opie The Box

John Carpenter (1790–1842), of Mount Tavy

John Chanter, Mayor of Bideford (1815–1816)

John Chuter

John Opie musée royal de Cornouailles

John Cole (1758–1819)

John Patch, Junior (1723–1786), Surgeon (1741–1786)

John Vivian of Pencalenick

John Opie musée royal de Cornouailles

Lady Kerrison, née Mary Anne Davies (1738–1825), Wife of Sir Roger Kerrison of Brooke, Norfolk

Lady with Two Children and a Parrot

John Opie Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery

Lieutenant John Burge

John Opie Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery

Major General John Garstin (1756–1820), Bengal Engineers

Martin Davy, DD, Master (1803–1839)

Mary Graves

John Opie musée royal de Cornouailles

Miss Holcroft

John Opie Guildhall Art Gallery

Mother and Child

Murder of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral

Other Archer Windsor (1789–1833), 6th Earl of Plymouth

Philip Champion de Crespigny (1738–1803), MP

Portrait of a Boy (after Sir Joshua Reynolds)

John Opie musée royal de Cornouailles

Portrait of a Boy in a Top Hat with Flies

John Opie Victoria and Albert Museum

Portrait of a Girl

John Opie Glynn Vivian Art Gallery

Portrait of a Girl with a Bundle of Faggots

John Opie musée royal de Cornouailles

Portrait of a Man

Portrait of a Man (said to be a self portrait)

Portrait of a Young Girl

Portrait of an Artist

John Opie Southampton City Art Gallery

Portrait of an Elderly Gentleman

John Opie musée royal de Cornouailles

Portrait of Anne Westcott [later Mrs. Frederick Waller]

Portrait of Dr Mudge

John Opie Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Portrait of Lady Hamilton ?

Portrait of Mary Westcott [later Mrs. Benjamin Waller]

Portrait of Mrs. Coxe

Portrait of the Artist in Black Dress

Reverend Joseph Priestley (1733–1804)

Robert Southey (1774–1843), Aged 31

Samuel Forster (1752–1843), DD

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

Sarah, Mrs Francis Smith

John Opie Ashmolean Museum

Sebastian Grandi

John Opie Ashmolean Museum

Self Portrait

John Opie musée royal de Cornouailles

Self Portrait

John Opie musée royal de Cornouailles

Self Portrait

John Opie Victoria Art Gallery

Sir Richard Fisher Belward, DD, Master (1795–1803)

Sir Simon Le Blanc (1748/1749–1816), Fellow (1779–1799)

Sir Thomas Bernard

The Beggar Boy

John Opie Falmouth Art Gallery

The blind Beggar of Bethnal Green and his Daughter

John Opie Ashmolean Museum

The Calling of Samuel

The Cornish Girl

The Fortune Teller

The Keeper of Bodmin Gaol

John Opie musée royal de Cornouailles

The Schoolmistress

The Surprise

John Opie Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery

Thomas Harvey of Catton

Timon (fragment of 'Timon of Athens')

John Opie Bolton Museum

Tymandra and Phryma (fragment of 'Timon of Athens')

John Opie Bolton Museum

Welsh Lady

William Adams (1706–1789)

William Blizard (1743–1835)

William Brodie, Later 22nd Laird, with His Brothers, Sisters and a Dog

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), LLD

John Opie Victoria Art Gallery

Old Kneebone of Helston

John Opie Penlee House Museum and Gallery

William Opie

John Opie musée royal de Cornouailles

Jenny Prideaux

John Opie musée royal de Cornouailles

Lady Jane Buller

William Cookworthy (1705–1780)

John Opie The Box

Dr Thomas Glass (1709–1786), Physician (1741–1775)

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

John Opie Harvard Art Museums

Sir John St Aubyn (1758–1839)

John Opie The Box

John Penwarne of Penwarne (1721–1788)

John Opie The Box

Isabella Wyatt-Edgell

Portrait of Dr. Johnson

The Reverend Micaiah Towgood (1700–1792)

The School Mistress

Lady Hoare (1736–1800)

Reverend Dr John Taylor

Sir Richard Hoare (1735–1787), Bt

The Gullett Family

John Opie musée royal de Cornouailles

Age and Infancy

John Opie Royal Academy of Arts

Captain Joseph Morcom and Thomas Daniell

John Opie musée royal de Cornouailles

Hannah More

Major Daniel Hamilton (1722–1810)

Mrs Meymott

The Murder of Rizzio

John Opie Guildhall Art Gallery

George Vaughan

The Presentation in the Temple

John Harvey (1755–1842), Mayor of Norwich (1792)

Sir John Borlase Warren (1753–1822)

Mrs Mary Chatfield

John Vinicombe (1761–1808)

Master Benjamin Smith (1783–1860), and His Younger Brother

Peter Bown Harris, JP, DL, of Rose Merryn

John Opie musée royal de Cornouailles

Self Portrait

The Death of Archbishop Sharpe

James Alderson (1742–1825), Surgeon (1772–1793), Physician (1793–1821) (the artist's father-in-law)

John Crome (1768–1821)

Lady Elizabeth Woodville Pleading for Her Children before Edward IV (detail)

Samuel Harmer (1721/1722–1808), Speaker of the Common Council of Norwich

Mary Gay (c.1780–1853) (the future Mrs Girdlestone)

Self Portrait

James Wyatt (1746–1813), RA

John Burgess (c.1749–1820)

Mawdistly Best and His Brother outside Rochester Cathedral

John Opie Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery

Mrs Ann Elliott (d.c.1853?)

Portrait of a Girl

John Opie National Museum Cardiff

Portrait of Lady King

John Opie Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

Sir Jacob Astley (1797–1859), 6th Bt, 16th Baron Hastings, as a Child with a Hobby Horse

Sketch for a Female Head

John Opie Courtauld Gallery

Thomas Girtin

John Opie Ashmolean Museum

Thomas Girtin

John Opie Whitworth Art Gallery

La Femme en blanc

The Venerable John Owen, Chaplain-General (1810–1824)

John Herring (1748/1749–1810), Mayor of Norwich (1799)

Master William Buckle Frost (1798–1875)

Self Portrait

John Opie Royal Academy of Arts

William Frederick (1776–1834), 2nd Duke of Gloucester

The Honourable Henry Hobart (1738–1799), MP for Norwich

Anne Hammersley (1773–1841)

Hon. Edward Boscawen (1787–1841)

Shute Barrington (1734–1826)

Sir David Wilkie (1785–1841)

John Opie musée royal de Cornouailles

The Noverre Children

'Richard III', Act II, Scene 4, the Duke of York Resigned by the Queen (from the Boydell series)

Portrait of a Young Man (thought to be a member of the Pollock family)

Sir William Dolben (1727–1814), Bt

William, First Earl of Lonsdale, Wearing Robes

Dr Frank Sayers (1763–1817), Aged 37

Sir William Lister