Thomas Heaphy (1775 - 1835)

Born 29 Dec 1775 in London, England

Husband of Mary (Stevenson) Heaphy — married 27 Nov 1799 in Saint Botolph Without Aldersgate, London, England

Husband of Harriet Jane (Mason) Heaphy — married 11 Nov 1833 in Old Church, Saint Pancras, London, England

Descendants

Died 23 Oct 1835 at age 59 in London, England

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Biography

Father: John Gerrard Heaphy, who was a merchant with Irish ancestry. Mother: possibly French.^[1]

He married first, Mary Stevenson in 1799 with whom he had two sons and three daughters. It's possible he had another daughter (Ellen, b. 9 Oct 1807) and another son (John, b. 30 Aug 1810, bur. 9 Nov 1829). ^[2] He married second, Harriet Jane Mason with whom he had 2 sons.

Thomas Heaphy was an English water-colour and portrait artist. He was appointed portrait-painter to the Princess of Wales, Princess Charlotte, and to Prince Leopold, among other distinguished people.

He was a property developer at Regent's Park and St. John's Wood.

He established the Society of British Artists and was first president of the society.

He published a book called The Likeness of Christ; an Enquiry into the Verisimilitude of the Received Likeness of Our Blessed Lord.

In 1812 Thomas Heaphy went to Spain and painted the portraits of army officers who sat for him in the British camp during the Peninsular War.

Thomas Heaphy aged 59 of Milton Street, MaryleBone, was buried on the 30th October 1835 in Bunhill Fields, London, England.

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Heaphy
2. ↑ https://familysearch.org

• MARRIAGE Heaphey/Stevenson : England Marriages 1538-1973 FindMyPast
• DEATH in England and Wales non-Conformist records [1] also in "England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQYF-XZZ : accessed 25 April 2016), Thomas Heaphy, 30 Oct 1835, Burial; citing p. 177, Bunhill Fields, London, record group RG4, Public Record Office, London.

See also

• Wikidata: Item Q14538310, en:Wikipedia