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Portrait of Silvestra Monypenny - British 18th century art female oil painting1778
1778
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This lovely British 18th century Old Master portrait oil painting is attributed to the manner of Thomas Beach. The sitter is Silvestra Monypenny when she was about 12. She is the only daughter of James Monypenny of Maytham estate and sister to Robert Monypenny whose portrait we also have. Silvestra married Reverend John Hutton. It was painted in 1778 and the artist is unknown. Silvestra is seated and wearing a white dress and elaborate hat. The detail is superb. This is an excellent example of British 18th century portraiture.
Provenance. Inscribed verso with sitters details.
Condition. Oil on canvas, 30 inches by 25 inches unframed and in good condition.
Frame. Housed in its original ornate late 18th century carved giltwood frame, 37 inches by 32 inches framed and in good condition.
Thomas Beach (1738 – 17 December 1806) was a British portraitist who studied under Sir Joshua Reynolds. Beach was born at Milton Abbas, Dorset in 1738, and showed. a strong predilection for art from an early age. In 1760, under the patronage of Lord Dorchester's family, he became a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds, while at the same time studying at the St. Martin's Lane Academy. He then settled at the fashionable resort of Bath, where he was much in demand for his portraits and portrait groups, which were usually of a small size.
He painted the actress Sarah Siddons several times. In his first portrait of her, painted in the winter of 1781–2, she is shown seated, in everyday clothes, holding a book. He depicted her again later in 1782, in one of his more ambitious works, an allegorical portrait inspired by Milton's Il Penseroso, in which she represented the personification of Melancholy. In 1787 he painted Mrs. Siddons and John Kemble in the Dagger Scene in Macbeth, of which the actress wrote, My brother's head is the finest I have ever seen, and the likest of the two. He was a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists, and a contributor to its exhibitions from 1772 to 1783. He exhibited the Royal Academy every year from 1785 until 1790, but not again until 1797, when he was living at Strand-on-the-Green, near Kew in London, and sent a portrait of the Prince of Wales. Several of Beach's portraits were engraved in mezzotint by William Dickinson, Valentine Green, Richard Houston, and John Jones. Beach died at Dorchester, Dorset, on 17 December 1806. The National Portrait Gallery has a portrait by Beach of William Woodfall, the earliest parliamentary reporter. Portraits of Sir Edward Wilmot, bart., M.D., and Richard Tattersall, the horse dealer who established 'Tattersall's, were exhibited in the National Portrait Exhibition of 1867.
- Creation Year:1778
- Dimensions:Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 25 in (63.5 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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- Circle Of:Thomas Beach (1738 - 1806, English)
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- Gallery Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU853113397992
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