Mary Beale
(1633-99) Portrait of a young girl in profile1680s
Oil on canvas
30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Provenance
Hugh Whitefield Esq., Nailsea Court, Nailsea, Somerset;Phillips, Bath, ‘Pictures’, 18 November 1996, lot 98;Philip Mould & Company, London (Historical Portraits Ltd), acquired from the above;Moyse’s Hall Museum, West Suffolk Council Heritage Service, acquired from the above with the aid of a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Literature
Treasures from West Country Collections. (1967) Bristol: City Arts Gallery, cat. 14;
Holbrook, M. and Haskell, A. (eds.) (1969) The Age of Innocence: An Exhibition of The Child and This World. Bath: Holburne Museum, cat. 17;
Walsh, E. and Jeffree, R. (eds.) (1975) ‘The Excellent Mrs Mary Beale’. London: Inner London Education Authority, cat. 23 and checklist no. 25 (illus. p.32);
Hunting, P. (2019) My Dearest Heart: The Artist Mary Beale (1633–1699). London: Unicorn, p. 147, (illus. p.146);
McWhirter, A. (ed.) (2021) Observations: The Mary Beale Collection. Suffolk: Moyse’s Hall Museum, (illus. p.27).
Holbrook, M. and Haskell, A. (eds.) (1969) The Age of Innocence: An Exhibition of The Child and This World. Bath: Holburne Museum, cat. 17;
Walsh, E. and Jeffree, R. (eds.) (1975) ‘The Excellent Mrs Mary Beale’. London: Inner London Education Authority, cat. 23 and checklist no. 25 (illus. p.32);
Hunting, P. (2019) My Dearest Heart: The Artist Mary Beale (1633–1699). London: Unicorn, p. 147, (illus. p.146);
McWhirter, A. (ed.) (2021) Observations: The Mary Beale Collection. Suffolk: Moyse’s Hall Museum, (illus. p.27).
Exhibitions
City Art Gallery, Bristol, ‘Treasures from West Country Collections’, 1 – 30 September 1967;
The Holburne Museum, Bath, ‘The Age of Innocence: An Exhibition of The Child and This World’, 22 November 1969 – 17 January 1970;
Geffrye Museum, London, ‘The Excellent Mrs Mary Beale’, 13 October – 21 December 1975 (Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, 10 January – 21 February 1976);
Moyse’s Hall Museum, Suffolk, ‘Observations: The Mary Beale Collections’, 23 October 2021 – 30 January 2022.
The Holburne Museum, Bath, ‘The Age of Innocence: An Exhibition of The Child and This World’, 22 November 1969 – 17 January 1970;
Geffrye Museum, London, ‘The Excellent Mrs Mary Beale’, 13 October – 21 December 1975 (Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, 10 January – 21 February 1976);
Moyse’s Hall Museum, Suffolk, ‘Observations: The Mary Beale Collections’, 23 October 2021 – 30 January 2022.
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