Who was Thomas Griffiths Wainewright and what did he do?
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of a colonial portrait artist, writer and rogue Thomas Griffiths Wainewright. Michael Desmond examines the career of the eighteenth-century suspected poisoner and portrait artist Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.
Who is the author of Wainewright the poisoner?
Other studies include Janus Weathercock by Jonathan Curling (Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, 1938), Robert Crossland’s Wainewright in Tasmania (OUP, Melbourne, 1954), and the poet Andrew Motion’s creative biography, Wainewright the Poisoner (2000).
Who are some famous people Thomas Wainewright painted?
Between 1837 and his death in Hobart ten years later, Wainewright created portraits for 56 sitters: some of notables and officials (such as lieutenant-governor Sir John Franklin and entrepreneur Edward Lord) and others of respectable settlers and their families.
Who was the killer in the TV show The poisoner?
Wainewright was the subject of the seventeenth episode of the television show Thriller, “The Poisoner” (aired 10 January 1961), with Murray Matheson playing the role of the killer (given the fictional name Thomas Edward Griffith) and featuring Sarah Marshall as his wife.
Other studies include Janus Weathercock by Jonathan Curling (Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, 1938), Robert Crossland’s Wainewright in Tasmania (OUP, Melbourne, 1954), and the poet Andrew Motion’s creative biography, Wainewright the Poisoner (2000).
And in the London literary scene of the 1820s everyone knew Thomas Griffiths Wainewright. He threw the best parties, he wore the best clothes, and his distinctive lisp and biting wit were both equally memorable. When he was arrested for forgery and fraud, everyone was shocked.
How old was Thomas Wainewright when he started painting?
Wainewright was raised by his grandfather, whose associates included Tom Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Josiah Wedgwood and William Blake. Aged 19, Wainewright began studying painting under Thomas Phillips and John Linnell.
Wainewright was the subject of the seventeenth episode of the television show Thriller, “The Poisoner” (aired 10 January 1961), with Murray Matheson playing the role of the killer (given the fictional name Thomas Edward Griffith) and featuring Sarah Marshall as his wife.
