J. De Fleury 

J. de Fleury (fl. 1773-1823), painter and engraver, was the brother of the poet Maria de Fleury (see below). She addressed a poem to him in 1773 upon the occasion of his marriage. He did engravings for the Protestant Magazine in 1781-82, when de Fleury was writing poems for the magazine. He exhibits at the Royal Academy in the early 1790s, living at Upper North Place, Gray’s Inn Road, London. Among his paintings are “The Vale of Festiniog, Merionethshire” (No. 26 in the catalogue, his painting exhibited in the outer room next to John Hazlitt’s “Portrait of Dr. Bardsley”, both men listed without any annotations to their names, such as ‘R.A’).  His second painting was exhibited in the ante-room, no. 359, “A Scene in Oatlands Park” (p.  18). He was painting landscapes by 1790, and began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1799, doing so some 60 times until 1823, possibly about the time of his death, though that is not known for certain. During these years he worked out of 110 Aldersgate, London, 59 Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell, London, 1799-1810; 2 Harrison Street, Grays Inn Road, 1812; and from Upper North Place, Gray’s Inn Road, London, after 1813. J. V. de Fleury, possibly the son or grandson of J. de Fleury, exhibited thirteen times at the Royal Academy between 1847 and 1868, painting mostly European landscapes. See The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1815 (London: B. McMillan, [1815]), 4, 18; Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and their Work from its Foundation in 1769 to 1904 (London, 1905), 292-3.