{"id":677,"date":"2024-12-08T18:56:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T18:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.everett-art.co.uk\/shop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=677"},"modified":"2026-08-10T17:16:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:16:44","slug":"mary-beale","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/everett-art.co.uk\/gallery\/product\/mary-beale\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Beale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><strong>PROVENANCE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Acquired by descent from the family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>ABOUT THE ARTIST:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One of the first professional female English artists. Beale was a talented and prolific painter and through the diaries kept by her husband Charles, who became her studio assistant and colourman so we know much of her technique and working practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Beale began her artistic career as an amateur in the 1650s, but started to paint professionally in the early 1670s, when, after escaping to Hampshire to avoid the plague, her family returned to London. She worked with Peter Lely in his studio, and, amongst other duties, made small copies of his portraits of famous sitters. We can observe Lely\u2019s influence in the present work, particularly in the inclusion of a painted stone cartouche which was a visual device frequently employed by Lely from the 1660s onwards.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Stylistically this portrait conforms with Beale\u2019s portraiture from the early-to-mid 1680s when her work was in high demand.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Her paintings are often described as &#8220;vigorous&#8221; and &#8220;masculine&#8221;. \u202fSir Peter Lely\u202fadmired Beale&#8217;s work, saying she &#8220;worked with a wonderful body of colour, and was exceedingly industrious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>ABOUT THE SUBJECT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u202fCharles Fox was an English politician.\u00a0Fox was born at\u202fBrussels\u202fas the third son of\u202fSir Stephen Fox\u202fjust before the Restoration.\u00a0\u00a0He was named after\u202fCharles II\u202fwho acted as his\u202fgodfather. Both his elder brothers were then dead, and in 1676 at the age of 16 he was sent on a tour of the Continent under the charge of Dr. Younger, later\u202fDean of Salisbury. On his return in 1679 he married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of\u202fSir William Trollope, 2nd Baronet; they had no children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Fox stood and won for\u202fCricklade\u202fin 1685. Apart from one short break in 1701, he represented this borough or\u202fSalisbury\u202ffor the rest of his life. \u2018His modesty made him backward in attempting set speeches\u2019, he was moderately active in James II\u2019s Parliament, with seven committees, including those to examine the disbandment accounts, to estimate the yield of a tax on new buildings, and to reform the bankruptcy law. He was much disturbed by the employment of Roman Catholic officers in the army, and was advised by his friends to absent himself from Parliament in order not to displease the King by voting to discuss grievances before supply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A High-Church Tory, Fox was far more of a party man than his father, though he regularly voted for supply under William III and Anne. He was dismissed in 1696 for voting against the attainder of Sir John Fenwick and again under Anne for voting for the Tack. He died at Chiswick in his father\u2019s lifetime on 21 Sept. 1713, considerably indebted, and was buried at Farley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1633 &#8211; 1699<\/p>\n<p>A portrait of Charles Fox (1660 &#8211; 1713) , MP for Eye, Cricklade, Salisbury and Paymaster General 1682<\/p>\n<p>Oil On Canvas<\/p>\n<p>Circa 1680<\/p>\n<p>30 x 25 inches<br \/>\n75.6 x 63 cm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21110,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[25,23],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-677","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-all-stock","product_cat-portrait","first","instock","sold-individually","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everett-art.co.uk\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everett-art.co.uk\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everett-art.co.uk\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everett-art.co.uk\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everett-art.co.uk\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everett-art.co.uk\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everett-art.co.uk\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everett-art.co.uk\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}