Career
He is mainly known for historical subjects, as well as for landscapes, portraits, and interiors. From then until 1872 he exhibited more than 38 works at the Royal Academy, 94 at the British Institution, and 41 at Suffolk Street Exhibitions (later to become the Royal Society of British Artists). He had a successful career: individual works by Wingfield were priced at around 100 pounds during his lifetime.
Occasionally his paintings depicted specific incidents in literature or history.
Pope was a favorite. In his later years he painted interiors and garden and park scenes, with figures in period costume. His 1849 painting of the Schönheitsgalerie, or female portrait gallery, in Hampton Court was especially well received.
The painting was used for the cover of a recent (2005) historical work, Tudor and Stuart Britain, 1485–1714, by Roger Lockyer.
