Introduction; 1 ‘A far greater Genius than Sir Joshua’: some issues and complexities around the portraiture; 2 ‘This melancholy employment’: portraits from the life to 1780; 3 ‘I yielded to importunity’: portraits from the life 1781-1791; 4 Prints and posthumous portraits: spreading and selling the image; 5 Scene paintings; 6 Pottery and sculpture ? a note; 7 No striking likeness? Images and ambiguities; 8 ‘The Pious Preacher’: satire; 9 ‘Of pictures I do not pretend to be a judge’: John Wesley and art; 10 Image, identity and institution: constructing a canon; 11 Conclusions: visualising Mr. Wesley; Plates; Appendix A ? Iconography of principal paintings of John Wesley, with selected prints; Appendix B ? References in John Wesley’s Journal and diaries to portraits and painters