Francis Brerewood

Francis Brerewood was an English painter, translator and architect. He enjoyed the patronage of Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore, painting portraits of Lord Baltimores son Benedict, and decorating the apartments of the Calvert family seat at Woodcote Park. He became embroiled in unsuccessful litigation in 1746 following his fathers death, and he died in poverty in 1781.

Brerewood was born in Chester, the son of Thomas Brerewood , and the greatgrandson of Sir Robert Brerewood, a wealthy landowner whose rents at the time of his death amounted to some 8,000 a year, an enormous sum at the time.

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