Thomas Frank Heaphy (born London, 2 April 1813; died London, 7 Aug 1873) was an English

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painter. Heaphy was the eldest son of the portrait painter

Thomas Heaphy Thomas Heaphy the Elder (1775–1835) was an English water-colour painter, known also for his portraits. Life Heaphy was born in London on 29 December 1775. His father, John Gerrard Heaphy, was a merchant of Irish background, with a French wife ...

and Mary Stevenson. His younger brother Charles Heaphy became an explorer and decorated military man, and two of his sisters also became miniature painters. He painted miniature portraits, and has works that can be found in the

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and the

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. In 1861 he published eight articles in the Art Journal that attempted to ascertain the origin of the likeness of Christ.

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The Likeness of Christ; Being an Inquiry into the Verisimilitude of the Received Likeness of Our Blessed Lord
' (1886)

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* 1813 births 1873 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters English portrait miniaturists 19th-century English male artists {{England-painter-stub