British painter, printmaker and teacher John Wheatley was married to the artist Edith Grace Wolfe. He studied at the Slade Art School, where he subsequently started to work as a teacher. Between the two World Wars both lived in South Africa, where he was director of the National Gallery and professor at the University of Cape Town. In 1937 the couple returned back to Britain, where he accepted the job as curator of the National Gallery of British Sports and Pastimes. His painting The Hooker was lent for the exhibition from his daughter Elizabeth, who was married to the British businessman Sir Peter Wendel Seligman.
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