Opie painted several Kingsbidge portraits, especially WILLIAM COOKWORTHY. This early work is now at Plymouth Art Gallery.
Opie's career was launched and managed by John Wolcot who was a Dodbrooke/ Kingsbridge man so it was a treat to find the house where he was born and spent his early life- it looks onto the quay at Kinsbridge and must have been even more picturesque in the eighteenth century. It is now called PINDAR LODGE which reminds us that Wolcot usd the paseudonym PETER PINDAR for his satirical writings.
There used to be a portrait of Wolcot- by Opie of course- in Kingsbridge museum but though that Old Grammar School is a fascinating place, well worth a visit, the portrait of Wolcot is no longer there.
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