An Exact Likeness: The Portraits of John Wesley by Heitzenrater Richard P

Author:Heitzenrater, Richard P.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: United Methodist Publishing House
Published: 2016-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

Wesley in Death

John Wesley died on March 2, 1791, after a one-week illness, about four months before his eighty-eighth birthday. The death mask (plaster cast) that was taken from his face is a check against the variety of portraits of him that appeared during his lifetime. The mask shows clearly, besides the flattened eyes from the pennies placed there to keep his eyelids closed, the long pointed nose, which appears in virtually every portrait of him, and the upper right lip bulging from an apparent raised eyetooth, which is never portrayed in the paintings, drawings, etchings, or busts, and a prominent forehead above the eyes.

Ridley, a common engraver of later Wesley portraits, took a drawing of Wesley lying in state at City Road Chapel before his funeral. It reinforces the three well-known features associated with Wesley and therefore of images of him—a prominent nose, curls at the bottom end of his hair, and Geneva bands with his preaching gown.

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