Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Haytley, Edward
HAYTLEY, EDWARD (d. 1762?), painter, presented in 1746 to the new western wing of the Foundling Hospital two views by himself of Chelsea and Bethlehem Hospitals. With the other artists who presented works of their own at the same time, Haytley was elected a governor of the hospital. From their annual meetings arose the first public exhibition of the works of English artists in 1760, to which Haytley sent ‘A Boy giving a Bunch of Grapes to his Brother’ and a lady's portrait. He sent three portraits to the exhibition in 1761, but, as his name does not occur again, he probably died about that time. He painted a well-known full-length portrait of Mrs. Woffington, which was engraved in mezzotint by J. Faber, junior, in 1731, and the head separately in similar style by C. Spooner.
[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Brownlow's Hist. of the Foundling Hospital; Chaloner Smith's British Mezzotinto Portraits.]