Weguelin John Reinhard

Born on 23 June 1849: John Reinhard Weguelin, British painter of genre, classical, biblical and historical subjects, who died on 28 April 1927. Born the son of a vicar of South Stoke, near Arundel in Sussex, who had presumably turned Roman Catholic, he was educated at Cardinal Newman’s Oratory School in Edgbaston.



Weguelin began working as a Lloyds underwriter, but then studied at the Slade under Poynter and Legros. He exhibited landscapes and biblical and classical subjects in the manner of Alma-Tadema. He illustrated several volumes of poems, translations and stories.

Studied at the Slade School under Poynter and Legros. Exhibited from 1877 at the Royal Academy, Society of British Artists, Grosvenor Gallery, New Gallery and elsewhere. Titles at the RA including The Labour of the Danaids (1878), ' (1884) and The Piper and the Nymphs (1897). Painted exclusively in watercolor after 1893 and was elected to the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolor in 1897. Lived for a time at Hastings. In 1996, in Chepstow, south Wales, the BBC's Antiques Roadshow discovered a picture by Weguelin entitled Mermaids (1910).