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Mary Beale - English Portrait Painter
Mary Beale (1632-1697): An English portrait painter known as a teacher as well as for her portraits of children. Her father was a clergyman and her husband a cloth manufacturer.
Women Artists: Renaissance and Baroque Painters
On this site: an overview of women painters of the 16th-17th centuries, including a list of many of the female painters of the period.
Portrait of a Woman with a Black Hood
From the National Museum of Women in the Arts, an image of a painting by Mary Beale.
Self-Portrait
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Sir James Long of Draycott Park, Wiltshire and Witley Calne,
From the National Museum of Women in the Arts, an image of a painting by Mary Beale.