Mrs. Beal paintress [art original]Beale, Mary, 1633-1699, artist[not after 1697]engPortrait 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 shouldersTitle 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.