Mary Beale Portrait Paintings
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 a Gentleman, Traditionally called the Duke of Monmouth
By Mary Beale
Located in London, GB
PROVENANCE
(Possibly) The Hon. Frederick Henry North,
Frank T. Sabin Galleries by 1914,
Likely acquired from the above by Sir Gilbert Eliott, 10th Bt. of Stobs, Thence by descent ...
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17th Century Baroque Mary Beale Portrait Paintings
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Portrait of a Lady in an Elaborate Stone Cartouche, Oil on canvas Painting
By Mary Beale
Located in London, GB
Portrait of a Lady in an Elaborate Stone Cartouche c.1675-80
Mary Beale (1632-1699)
Titan Fine Art present this superb portrait where the sitter has been portrayed wearing a low-cut white chemise under a gold silk robe with a draped light...
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17th Century Old Masters Mary Beale Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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