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| Charles Beale Casts of hands 1670s drawing British Museum |
The London portrait painter Mary Beale (1633-1699) and her husband Charles (1631-1705) arranged for casts to be made of arms, hands and heads so that Mary could paint portrait poses without a sitter present. Their eminent colleague Sir Peter Lely visited the studio in 1677. Charles Beale showed him 'some of the hands we had cast ... in various postures which are cast up to the elbow' . He reported that Lely 'was very much pleased with them and would hardly believe we could cast them so curiously ourselves. And said we had made him greatly out of love with his own, which (upon the sight of ours) he should now think very mean and poor'. The drawings of the casts were made by the teenage son of the Beales, also named Charles. The account of Lely's visit is based on curator's notes at the British Museum.
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| Charles Beale Cast of infant's head 1670s drawing British Museum |
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| Charles Beale Cast of an Emperor's head 1670s drawing British Museum |
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| Mary Beale Self-portrait with husband and son 17th century oil on canvas Geffrye Museum, London |
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| Mary Beale Self-portrait with palette ca. 1675 oil on canvas St Edmundsbury Museums |
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| Mary Beale Portrait of Charles Beale the Elder ca. 1663 canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Mary Beale Portrait of a boy 17th century canvas Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| attributed to Mary Beale Portrait of Oliver Whitby 17th century canvas Christ's Hospital, Sussex |
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| Mary Beale Portrait of an unknown gentleman 17th century canvas National Trust, Great Britain |
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| Mary Beale Portrait of Lady Mary Hay ca. 1675 oil on canvas St Edmundsbury Museums |
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| Mary Beale Portrait of Jane Fox, Lady Leigh as a Shepherdess 17th century oil on canvas St Edmundsbury Museums |
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| Mary Beale Portrait of Lady Essex Mostyn ca. 1675 oil on canvas St Edmundsbury Museums |
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| circle of Mary Beale Portrait of William MacKenzie, 5th Earl of Seaforth 1699 oil on canvas Fortrose Town Hall |
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| Mary Beale Portrait of Mary, Lady Gough ca. 1670 oil on canvas Tamworth Castle |