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Mary Beale Art

English, 1633-1699

Mary Beale was one of the most successful professional female Baroque art portrait painters of the late 17th century. She started painting alongside her father, whose membership in The Painter-Stainers’ Company introduced her to the renowned court painter Peter Lely and many of his contemporaries. At 18, she married Charles Beale, a colour-mixer, Charles would stretch many of her canvases and mix pigments for work. Later, Charles would meticulously record Mary’s artistic process, clientele and technique, giving us a rare window into the world of a brilliant woman flourishing in a nearly exclusively male field. Mary would paint the noted physician Thomas Sydenham, who wrote The foundational medical text observationes medicae, the politician, William Pierrepont, John Lake, the Bishop of Chichester, John Tillotson, the Archbishop of Canterbury and John Maitland (1616–82), Duke of Lauderdale. Beale’s catalog became a who’s who of London’s most influential and she was prolific.

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Artist: Mary Beale
Portrait of His Royal Highness James, Duke of York and Albany
Portrait of His Royal Highness James, Duke of York and Albany

Portrait of His Royal Highness James, Duke of York and Albany

By Mary Beale

Located in London, GB

Mary Beale Portrait of His Royal Highness James Duke of York & Albany 1633-1699 Oil on canvas, inscribed on reverse, unsigned Image size: 30 x 25 inches (76 x 63.5 cm) Contempora...

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17th Century Mary Beale Art

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Portrait of Nell Gwyn

Portrait of Nell Gwyn

By Mary Beale

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Mary Beale Portrait of Nell Gwyn 1633 - 1699 Oil on canvas, unsigned Image size: 14 ¾ x 16 ½ inches Gilt frame Beale’s portrait depicts a woman seated, head tilted to one side, eyes...

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17th Century Mary Beale Art

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