Cries Of London, Milk Below Maids Brass Door Knocker FRANCIS WHEATLEY Art
Milk Below Maids, from the Cries of London Series. Francis Wheatley exhibited his series of oil paintings entitled the “Cries of London” at the Royal Academy between 1792 and 1795. Two year earlier, the forty-one year old painter had been elected to the Academy in preference to the King’s nominee and, as a consequence, he never secured any further commissions for portraits from the aristocracy.