Thomas Beach 1738-1806Portrait of a Young Man thought to be William Turner 1750-1819 with his dog holding a Peregrine Falconoil on canvas76.20 x 63.50 cmThomas Beach carried out three full length portraits for Sir Edward Turner 2nd Bt 1719-1766 , all the portraits were of his children , Elizabeth, Gregory , John and Cassandra. William did not feature in the full length portraits but was painted on his own in a half length portrait.William (1750-1819) was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford (B.A.1767). He married leaving issue (daughters).admitted to Lincolns Inn dec 1775.Artist biography Self-portrait (1802; National Portrait Gallery, London).Thomas Beach (1738 � 17 December 1806) was a British portraitist who studied under Sir Joshua Reynolds.Life and workJohn Kemble and Mrs. Siddons, in ''Macbeth'', painted in 1786, now housed at the Garrick Club in London.Beach was born at Milton Abbas, Dorset in 1738, and showed a strong predilection for art from an early age. In 1760, under the patronage of Lord Dorchester''s family, he became a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds, while at the same time studying at the St. Martin''s Lane Academy. He then settled at the fashionable resort of Bath, where he was much in demand for his portraits and portrait groups, which were usually of a small size.He painted the actress Sarah Siddons several times. In his first portrait of her, painted in the winter of 1781�2, she is shown seated, in everyday clothes, holding a book. He depicted her again later in 1782, in one of his more ambitious works, an allegorical portrait inspired by Milton''s Il Penseroso, in which she represented the personification of Melancholy. In 1787 he painted Mrs. Siddons and John Kemble in the Dagger Scene in Macbeth, of which the actress wrote, ''My brother''s head is the finest I have ever seen, and the likest of the two''.He was a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists, and a contributor to its exh...