Mrs. Beal paintress [art original]
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Description
- Title
- Mrs. Beal paintress [art original]
- Alternative Title
- Mrs. Beal the paintress, drawn by herself
- Creator
- Beale, Mary, 1633-1699, artist
- Contributor
- Lely, Peter, 1618-1680, artist.
- Published / Created
- [not after 1697]
- Publication Place
- England
- Abstract
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Portrait drawing of the painter Mary Beale; half-length, turned to the left and looking back at viewer; wearing a low-cut gown and pearl necklace; curls of hair falling on her nape and shoulders
- Description
-
Title from note in ink in lower left corner of sheet, possibly in Horace Walpole's hand.
Alternative title and attribution to Mary Beale from Richard Bull's note below image on mounting sheet: Mrs. Beal the paintress, drawn by herself.
Apparently copied from a portrait by Peter Lely; "aft. Lely" written in ink in lower right corner.
Date of production based on artist's death date.
This drawing was given to Richard Bull by Horace Walpole in 1786, as indicated by Bull's note on mounting page: Presented to Mr. Bull by Mr. Walpole, 1786.
Mounted on page 79 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
For further information, consult library staff. - Provenance
- Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire, August 1937.
- Extent
- 1 drawing : sheet 30.9 x 24 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Portraits
Charcoal drawings
Wash drawings - Material
- charcoal and ink wash ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Beale, Mary, 1633-1699,
- Subjects
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Beale, Mary, 1633-1699
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 > Presentation to Richard Bull
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Mary Beale, Mrs. Beal Paintress. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13449126
- Object ID (OID)
- 16732970
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