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Mary Beale: pioneer of portraiture

Listen to Dr Lisa Mansfield

‘Women’s lives were regulated by gendered expectations and social constraints that dictated their roles and responsibilities as dutiful daughters, obedient wives, and devoted mothers, within a predominantly protestant religious framework.’
Dr Lisa Mansfield

https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Lisa-Mansfield-Mary-Beale-works-mixed-v2.mp3

Mary Beale’s three-quarter-length Self-portrait with husband and son c. 1663–64 (The Geffrye, Museum of the Home, London), anticipates her renown a decade later as a professional portrait painter in post-Restoration London.

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Mary BEALE
Portrait of a lady
(c. 1680)
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