tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10760709.post114219930234611102..comments2023-10-31T10:28:50.158-04:00Comments on The Zeray Gazette: Art Blogging: Portraits of John WesleyJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04854543617806427302noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10760709.post-45876344028715558492011-02-14T16:11:20.567-05:002011-02-14T16:11:20.567-05:00I found a picture gifted to the church in 1953, of...I found a picture gifted to the church in 1953, of John Wesley. It was in the cellar! The artist is Frank O Salisbury and is signed on the print.(I think it is a print) However there is also a pencil signature by F O S. Could this make the print of value?<br />Thanks,SJPAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10760709.post-76567024440132341772010-01-02T16:57:51.440-05:002010-01-02T16:57:51.440-05:00In terms of accuracy of likeness, the 1781 bust by...In terms of accuracy of likeness, the 1781 bust by Enoch Wood was generally considered to be the best by people who had known Wesley. Of the four pictures you show, Wesley is only definitely recorded as having sat to Romney (January 1789), though possibly a reference in Dec 1787 to 'the painter' refers to the Hamilton portrait. However, there has been doubt about how sympathetic a portraitist Romney was to Wesley.<br /><br />I have details of 12 portraits + 6 miniatures of Wesley 'from the life', plus several posthumous portraits, about 20 'scene paintings': some of these are known in multiple copies (10 copies of the Romney, for instance). Add to that statuary plus innumerable prints, not forgetting ceramics, and you have a complex field. <br /><br />Peter Forsaith <br />OxfordPeter Forsaithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10760709.post-1143328227698915102006-03-25T18:10:00.000-05:002006-03-25T18:10:00.000-05:00John,Salisbury painted 3 posthumous portraits of W...John,<BR/>Salisbury painted 3 posthumous portraits of Wesley. You have shown the most famous which is in Wesley's House in City Road, London. The others - which feature Wesley in more vivid clerical garb - are in Methodist Central Hall, Westminster and World Methodist HQ in North Carolina.<BR/><BR/>Salisbury used Charles Annesley Voysey, the nonconformist architect, as a model; Voysey was the great great great grandson of Sukey - one of John Wesley's sisters!<BR/><BR/>Though Salisbury made a fortune painting the elite and large canvases of royal occasions, he was a generous benefactor of the mainstream denominations - particularly Methodism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10760709.post-1142307975322619822006-03-13T22:46:00.000-05:002006-03-13T22:46:00.000-05:00There is a methodology to determining accurate por...There is a methodology to determining accurate portraiture before the age of photography, but I no longer remember its principles. I once met a scholar who devoted his entire career to examining Greco-Roman iconography to determine what the Ancients really looked like.<BR/><BR/>My first guess would be that the Hone and Hamilton pictures are the most accurate. They, at least, agree with each other about Wesley's facial features.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04854543617806427302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10760709.post-1142304466356111802006-03-13T21:47:00.000-05:002006-03-13T21:47:00.000-05:00John,The Frank O. Salisbury portrait of Wesley is ...John,<BR/><BR/>The Frank O. Salisbury portrait of Wesley is the one that I remember the most from my time growing up in church. We had that portrait somewhere in the back of the sanctuary. That is the one that comes to my mind with I think of the name John Wesley. I didn't know that he never met or saw the man. I wonder how realistic it is.?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com