The Saithwaite Family, ca. 1785, Oil on canvas, 38 3/4 x 50 in. (98. 4 x 127 cm), Paintings, Francis Wheatley (British, London 1747?1801 London), Wheatley was among the best painters of the small-scale group portrait, or conversation piece, which is so typical of the mid-eighteenth-century English school. Here he shows a couple and their little girl, traditionally identified as members of the Saithwaite family