Samuel Medley (painter)
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Samuel Medley (1769–1857) was an English portrait painter and one of the founders of University College, London.[1] His works include a large group representing the Medical Society of London. Many prints were engraved and distributed after his paintings.
Samuel Medley, Jr.[1] was born on 22 March 1769. He was son of the Baptist minister Samuel Medley.
Taking up painting as his profession, he exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy, in 1792 sending The Last Supper. In 1805, however, he went on the Stock Exchange, for health reasons, where he made a comfortable income, continuing to paint in his leisure hours.[2]
Medley was a member of a large Baptist community in London, under Francis Augustus Cox. With Cox, Henry Brougham, and some leading Dissenters, he was associated in founding University College, London, in 1826.[2]
Later in life, Medley lived at Chatham, where he died on 10 August 1857, and was buried.[2]
