ABSTRACT
Some two-thirds of portraits of Wesley in his lifetime were taken in his final decade, mostly when he was over 80. Posterity’s prevailing image is thus of an elderly man, although he long retained much of the energy and looks of a younger person. Paintings were often made to be engraved for prints; this chapter examines these, by artists such as Thomas Horsley, Sylvester Harding, William Hamilton and most notably George Romney. Three smaller images from the last year of his life, a miniature which is here re-attributed to John Barry, a profile by J. Butterworth (a Leeds artist) and a caricature from the Edinburgh etcher John Kay conclude this section.
