John Hayes (1786?–1866) was a British portrait-painter. He died aged 80.

Works

Hayes first exhibited in the

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in 1814. He continued to show there to 1851; his contributions were chiefly portraits, though he occasionally sent a subject picture. Hayes had a good practice as a portrait-painter. His portrait of

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was engraved by

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, as frontispiece to her ''Lives of the Queens of England'' (1851).

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;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Hayes, John 1786 births 1866 deaths 19th-century British painters British male painters British portrait painters 19th-century British male artists