FRUIT OF FRIENDSHIP: PORTRAITS BY MARY BEALE
25 April to 19 July 2024
Mary Beale (1633-1699) was one of Britain’s first professional and most prolific woman artists of her period. Working throughout the turbulent late-17th century, she established one of the earliest successful studios for a British woman artist. This exhibition will span her entire career and include self-portraits, portraits of her family and friends, and formal commissions. will also shed light on Beale’s progressive studio practice and highlight its radical reversal of.