Francis Hayman

Francis Hayman (1708 - February 2, 1776) was an English artist and teacher who was one of the founding members of the Royal Academy and its first librarian. Born in Exeter, he began his career as a scene painter. He illustrated Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained and Smollet's translation of Don Quixote. A portion of his painting Robert Clive and Mir Jafar after the Battle of Plassey, 1757 was used as the…