An artist who worked onstage and on canvas.(The Home Forum)

The Christian Science Monitor | June 7, 2000 | Copyright

Francis Hayman may not now be ranked among the "greats" of 18th-century English art - alongside Gainsborough, Hogarth, and Reynolds - but he was highly regarded in his day. He has not, however, completely vanished. A major exhibition was devoted to him in 1987, for example, in London and New Haven, Conn.

Hayman was a versatile artist. He painted single portraits and the popular family-group portraits known as "conversation pieces." He was a prolific and original book illustrator. He was chiefly known by his contemporaries, though, as a "history painter," with a ...

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