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George Beare active 1741-1747
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description
- George Beare
- Portrait of Mary Vesey, Mrs John Vere (1713-1790)
- Signed l.l.: Geo Beare/ pinxit. 1744. and inscribed u.l.: Mrs Vere
- Oil on canvas
- 91.5 by 68.5 cm.; 36 by 27 in.
Half length, seated wearing a grey dress and holding a fan
Exhibited
Pallant House, Chichester, George Beare, 1989, no.4
Literature
1801 Inventory, no. 23;.
Edmund Farrer, Portrait in Suffolk Houses, East, Vol.I, MSS, 1921, listed as no.45 in Broke Hall
Edmund Farrer, Portrait in Suffolk Houses, East, Vol.I, MSS, 1921, listed as no.45 in Broke Hall
Catalogue Note
The sitter was the daughter of Thomas Vesey of Hintlesham, Suffolk, and his wife Elizabeth Harvey. In circa 1737 she married the Rev. John Beaumont of Sproughton who died in 1743. On 1st June 1744 she married John Vere, and this portrait must have been painted as a commemoration of the marriage. Her portrait by Thomas Gainsborough hangs at Gainsborough's house.