George Law Francis Beetholme

GEDCOM Note

George Law Francis Beetholme was born in 1825 in Hampstead, London, the eldest son of a solicitor by the name of John Law Beetholme (1797-1866). He was one of five children, having two sisters and two brothers. One of his brothers John Law Beetholme (1839-1909) was also an artist but became a playwright George Law F. was an articled clerk in the Census of 1851 and followed his father and became a solicitor, but was also listed as both a solicitor and an artist in the 1861 Census, when he was living at 1 Millman Street, Holborn, with his wife Jane, nee Whinham (1834-1911), who he had married in 1856 and his son, confusingly also called George Law Francis Beetholme (1857-1887).</line><line /><line>His son George Jr. was also listed as an artist at 18 Little James Street, along with his father as a solicitor in the street directory for 1882, however, by 1899, after George Jr. had died two years earlier, George Senior was living at 47 Huntingdon Street, Islington with his wife Jane and listed as a landscape artist.</line><line /><line>George exhibited from 1847-1890 at the Royal Academy, the British Institution, Suffolk Steet (RBA) and elsewhere. His landscapes at the RA were mainly scenes in Scotland, but he was known for painting landscapes containing waterfalls in both Wales and Scotland. His son George Jr. who was a still life (fruit) and landscape painter exhibited 1878-1886 at Suffolk Street, prior to his untimely death.