Artist: Mary Beale (1633 - 1699)
Nationality: British
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
Mary Beale was the daughter of a clergyman, working mostly in London. Due to her religious upbringing, she began painting portraits mostly of religious figures. Beale was active in many of the intellectual circles in London. Knowledge of her career is based upon the records kept by her husband chronicling payments and other information regarding her sitters.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Charles Willson Peale - John Beale Bordley 1776 watercolor on ivory Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Charles Willson Peale - John Beale Bordley 1770 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Richard Beale The Crewel Tondo Etching, Hand-c 1972
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Mary Beale - Portrait of a Woman with a Black Hood c. 1660 oil on canvas National Museum of Women in the Arts English
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Sophia Beale Untitled (Race Meeting?) watercolor 1892
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The Whale Ship, ca. 1845 Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775-1851)Oil on canvas; 36 1/8
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Mary Beale - Sir James Long of Draycott Park, Wiltshire and Witley Calne, Wiltshire c. 1660 oil on canvas National Museum of Women in the Arts English
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Charles Beale - Unknown Man (1693) 1693 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Francis Alexander, American, 1800-1880 Mrs. Beale Thayer and Miss Sarah Blanchard about 1835 Oil on
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Mary Cassatt - Miss Mary Ellison c. 1880 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Polidoro di Bartolomeo - Crucifixion with Saints (St. Francis of Assisi, Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, St. John the Apostle, and St. Anthony of Padua) c. 1480 fresco transferred t Utah Museum of Fine Arts Italian
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Quentin Massys - Mary Magdalen 15th-16th centu oil on oak panel The Detroit Institute of Art Flemish
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Mary Magdalene 1877 oil on canvas Delaware Art Museum Italian
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Edmund Charles Tarbell - Mother and Mary 1922 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - Mary Barry 1803-1805 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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James Peale - Mary Mitchell 1795 watercolor on ivory Cincinnati Art Museum American
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Francois-Joseph Bosio - The Virgin Mary 1843 marble Dahesh Museum of Art French
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John Constable - Mrs. Mary Fisher 1816 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Corita The Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary Color screenprint 1955
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Mary Hart Sampler calico cat and verse; inscribed, "Mary Hart 1800" Polychrome silk on linen 1800
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Mary Frank Untitled (Running Figures in the Forest) Color monotype 1978
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Aubrey Beardsley How La Beale Isoud Nursed Sir Tristram, in book 8 opposite page 198 in the book Morte Darthur: The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, of His Noble Knights äby Sir Thomas Malory. intro. John Rhys. 2nd ed. (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1
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Aubrey Beardsley La Beale Isoud at Joyous Gard, in book 10 on double pages following page 354 in the book, Morte Darthur: The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, of His Noble Knights ä (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1909) The Birth, Life and Acts of Kin
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Aubrey Beardsley How La Beale Isoud Wrote to Sir Tristram, in book 9 opposite page 250in the book Morte Darthur: The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, of His Noble Knights äby Sir Thomas Malory. intro. John Rhys. 2nd ed. (New York: E. P. Dutton,
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Mary Frank Horse, Fish, Bird Figure, Head Color monotype 1984
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Holy Family with Saints
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Carlo Crivelli - Saint Mary Magdalene c. 1491-1494 egg tempera on wood The National Gallery, London Italian
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Aubrey Beardsley Now King Mark and Sir Dinadan Heard Sir Palomides Making Great Sorrow and Mourning for La Beale Isoud, in book 10, on double pages following page 308 in the book Morte Darthur: The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, of His Noble Knigh
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Hans Holbein the Younger - Mary, Lady Guildford 1527 oil on panel Saint Louis Art Museum German
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Julia Margaret Cameron - Mary Hiller and Two Children 1864 albumen print from c National Gallery of Art British
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John Wollaston - Mary Walton Morris 1749-1752 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Duncan Grant - Miss Mary Coss 1931 oil on canvas covere The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Joseph Whiting Stock - Mary and Francis Wilcox 1845 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Allan Ramsay - Portrait of Mrs. Mary Martin 1761 oil on canvas Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
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Alexander Munro - Mary, Lady Molyneux 1868 marble Cleveland Museum of Art British
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William Hogarth - Miss Mary Edwards 1742 oil on canvas The Frick Collection British
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Georges de la Tour - Young Virgin Mary c. 1640 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art French
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Robert Henri - Mary Anne with her Basket c. 1910 oil on canvas Currier Museum of Art American
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Simon Vouet - Mary Magdalen Repentant c. 1630 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art French
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Annibale Carracci - Mary Magdalene in a landscape n.d. oil on copper The Fitzwilliam Museum Italian
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Mary Frank Daphnae Color monotype 1977
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Mary Frank Untitled Color monotype 1978
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Mary Frank Untitled Color monotype 1978
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Mary Frank Daphne Color monotype 1975
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Charles Christian Nahl Mary Ellis Emerson as a Child oil on canvas 1858
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Charles Wilson Peale - Mary Claypoole Peale c. 1789-90 oil on canvas Mead Art Museum, Amherst College American
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Mary Stevenson Cassatt, American, 1844-1926 Ellen Mary in a White Coat about 1896 Oil on
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Fra Angelico - The Virgin Mary with the Apostles and Other Saints 1423-1424 egg tempera on wood The National Gallery, London Italian
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Charles Willson Peale - Mrs. Thomas Elliot (Mary Chew) 1787 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art American
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Bernhard Strigel - Saint Mary Salome and Her Family c. 1520-1528 oil on panel National Gallery of Art German
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Andrea Vaccaro - Martha Rebuking Mary Magdalene n.d. oil on canvas Utah Museum of Fine Arts Italian
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John Singleton Copley - Mrs. Daniel Hubbard (Mary Greene) c. 1764 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Frank Weston Benson - Portrait of Mary Spencer Fuller 1914 oil on canvas Currier Museum of Art American
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Benjamin West - Portrait of Diana Mary Baker 1766 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts American
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Guido Cagnacci - Martha Rebuking Mary for Her Vanity after 1660 Oil on Canvas Norton Simon Museum Italian
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Hendrik van Steenwyck the Younger - Christ in the House of Martha and Mary 1620 oil on copper The Detroit Institute of Art Flemish
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens - Stanley Matthews and his Wife Mary 1904 bronze Cincinnati Art Museum American
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Abbott Handerson Thayer - Mary: Portrait of the Artist's Daughter 1894 oil on canvas The Hyde Collection American
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Bernhard Strigel - Saint Mary Cleophas and Her Family c. 1520-1528 oil on panel National Gallery of Art German
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Sir Thomas Lawrence - Lady Mary Templetown and Her Eldest Son 1802 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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Sebastiano Ricci - The Last Communion of Saint Mary of Egypt c. 1695 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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Thomas Eakins - Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams 1899 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago American
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El Greco - The Holy Family with Mary Magdalen c. 1590-95 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Spanish
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Jeremiah Theus - Mary Cuthbert (Mrs. James Cuthbert) c. 1765 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Georges-Daniel del Monfreid - Mater Dolorosa (The Virgin Mary Mourning) 1897 painted plaster and Cleveland Museum of Art French
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Ralph Earl - Mary Smith Booth (1744-1824) 1790 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Julia Margaret Cameron - Call, I follow, I follow, let me die! (Mary Hillier) 1867 carbon print from or The Royal Photographic Society British
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Hans Eworth - Unknown Lady, formerly called Mary I when Princess c. 1550-1555 oil on panel The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Joshua Reynolds - The Ladies Amabel and Mary Jemima Yorke c. 1761 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art British
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Peter Lely - Portrait of a Lady: probably Mary Parsons, later Mrs. Draper c. 1665 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Benjamin West - Mary Bethel Boude (Mrs. Samuel Boude) 1755-1756 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Edward Dalton Marchant, American, 1806-1887 Mary Francis Gleason Vandervoort 1848 Oil on canvas 127.32 x
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John Vanderlyn - Mary Ellis Bell (Mrs. Issac Bell) c. 1827 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Artist: Benjamin West Title: Portrait of Diana Mary Barker Date: 1766 Medium: oil on canvas
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John Singer Sargent - Mary Crowninshield Endicott Chamberlain (Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain) 1902 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Lady Mary Berkeley, Wife of Thomas Chambers Sir Godfrey Kneller (German, 1646-1723)Oil on canvas; 29
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Rookwood Pottery Factory Plate earthenware 1884
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Rookwood Pottery Factory Plate earthenware 1884
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Pietro Lorenzetti - Madonna and Child with Saint Mary Magdalene and Saint Catherine c. 1330-1340 tempera on panel tra National Gallery of Art Italian
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The Last Communion of Saint Mary of Egypt, ca. 1690 Marcantonio Franceschini (Italian, Bolognese, 1648-1729)Oil
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Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), 1891 Paul Gauguin (French, 1848-1903)Oil on canvas; 44 3/4 x
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Benjamin West - Mary, Wife of Henry Thompson of Kirby Hall, as Rachel at the Well 1775 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art American
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Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma") Moses Belvedere oil on hardboard 1945
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Guillaume-Philippe Benoist Mary I 18th century
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The Honorable Mrs. Lewis Thomas Watson (Mary Elizabeth Milles, 1767-1818), 1789 Sir Joshua Reynolds (British,
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Samuel Walker Mrs. Mary Jane White oil on canvas 1871
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Mary Curtis Richardson The Sleeping Child oil on canvas 1911
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Sister Mary Paul Lewis, New Orleans
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Charles Christian Nahl Mary Ames oil on canvas 19th century
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Mary Curtis Richardson Girl Reading oil on canvas circa 1900
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George Biddle Mary Lithograph 1951
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John Trumbull Mrs. Rufus (Mary Alsop) King oil on canvas circa 1800
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Mary Pitseolak Perils of the Sea Traveller Color relief print 1960
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Anonymous William and Mary Chair beechwood and cane late 17th century
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Mary Robinson, American, born about 1804 Sampler American United States, Massachusetts, (Exeter), 1814 Linen plain
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Pietro Perugino - The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John, Saint Jerome, and Saint Mary Magdalene c. 1482-1485 oil on panel transfe National Gallery of Art Italian
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Beverdinus Glorious Birth of the Virgin Mary 1565
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Johannes Wierix The Annunciation to St. Mary Engraving 16th - 17th century
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Johann Jacob Thourneyser The Annunciation to St. Mary ENG 17th - 18th century
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Mary Cassatt Mlle. Margot without her hat Drypoint circa 1894

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San Diego Museum of Art: Degas in Bronze: The Complete Sculptures
The collection of 73 sculptures in the show is one of only four complete sets of Degas bronzes, which were cast shortly after the artist’s death, in existence. They come from the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil, and their presentation is organi...

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