, from a portrait by Whood of
Isaac Barrow. Born 1689, Whood practised for many years as a portrait-painter in
Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. His portraits of ladies were considered some of the best of the time. At Cambridge there are portraits by Whood at
Trinity College, including one of
Isaac Barrow, and at
Trinity Hall. There is a portrait of Archbishop
William Wake by Whood at
Lambeth Palace, painted in 1736. Some of his portraits were engraved in
mezzotint, notably one of
Laurent Delvaux the sculptor, engraved by
Alexander Van Haecken. Whood's drawings include some in chalk or
blacklead. In 1743, he executed a series of designs to illustrate
Samuel Butler's
Hudibras. The portrait of
Joseph Spence prefixed to his
Anecdotes was engraved from a portrait by Whood. ==Death==