Mary Anne Ansley

Mary Anne Ansley, née Gaudon (fl. 1810–1840)[1] was a British artist known for her depiction of mythological subjects and for her portrait paintings.

Biography

Ansley was the daughter of an architect and married a British Army officer, a Colonel Ansley.[2] Between 1814 and 1833 she exhibited some twenty-two works at the Royal Academy.[2] Some twenty-one pieces by her were also shown at the British Institution in London between 1812 and 1823.[3] She was also a regular exhibitor at the Suffolk Street gallery of the Royal Society of British Artists.[4] In 1833 Ansley painted a portrait of Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte for which the Prince sat for her in London.[2][4] For many years a number of her works were held at Houghton Hall in Huntingdonshire with which she had a family connection.[2] Ansley spent some time in Italy and died in Naples in 1840.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Restricted, but not Deterred: How Women Became Artists in the Rulebound Eighteenth Century". AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d Sara Gray (2009). The Dictionary of British Women Artists. The Lutterworth Press. ISBN 97807-18830847.
  3. ^ a b Brian Stewart; Mervyn Cutten (1997). The Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-173-2.
  4. ^ a b Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 1 A-Bedeschini. Editions Grund, Paris. 2006. ISBN 2-7000-3070-2.
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