The following lots 182-219 are from The Ross Collection, Knockmore, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow. Francis Wheatley RA, British 1747-1801- Figures in a cart in a wooded landscape; oil on canvas, 76.5x83.5cm Provenance: Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 15 July 1983, lot 36; Christie's, London, 21st November, 2019 Note: Between 1762 and 1765 Wheatley was awarded an array of prizes for his drawings by the Society of Artists, gaining a place at the newly founded Royal Academy Schools in 1769. Following trips to the Low Countries and Ireland throughout the 1760s, he settled in London as a Fellow of the Society of Artists and was appointed as the director in 1774, going onto exhibit at the Royal Academy in 1778. Despite this success, Wheatley was forced to flee to Dublin in 1779 to escape creditors, and eloped with the wife of a fellow artist, John Alexander Gresse. Once in Ireland he established himself as a popular portrait painter, decorating the interior of the Irish House of Commons, however once his personal circumstances were revealed he returned to England. Over the next 10 years he became renowned for his landscapes and rustic subject matter and was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1790, and an academician in the following year. Overall, he exhibited forty-five pictures at the Society of Artists and eighty-seven at the Royal Academy. Please refer to department for condition report