Isaac Whood

Isaac Whood (1689–1752) was an English portrait-painter, working in the manner of Godfrey Kneller.

Life[]

Engraving by William Holl the Younger, from a portrait by Whood of Isaac Barrow.

Whood practised for many years as a portrait-painter in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. His portraits of ladies were considered some of the best of the time.^[1]

He was especially patronised by John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, for whom he painted numerous portraits of members of the Spencer and Russell families, destined for Woburn Abbey; some of these were copied by Whood from other painters. At Winchester College there are portraits of twelve gentleman commoners from 1731.^[2] At Cambridge there are portraits by Whood at Trinity College, including one of Isaac Barrow, and at Trinity Hall. There is a portrait of Archbishop William Wake by Whood at Lambeth Palace, painted in 1736. ^[1]

Some of his portraits were engraved in mezzotint, notably one of Laurent Delvaux the sculptor, engraved by . Whood's drawings include some in chalk or blacklead. In 1743 he executed a series of designs to illustrate Samuel Butler's Hudibras. The portrait of Joseph Spence prefixed to his Anecdotes was engraved from a portrait by Whood.^[1]

Death[]

Whood died in Bloomsbury Square, London, on 24 February 1752.^[1]

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Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Whood, Isaac". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

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