Mary Anne Marshall, later Mrs William Searle Benthall (1780-1866) as a young girl

J. Wright
National Trust Inventory Number 509834

Category	Paintings
Date	1780 - 1785
Materials	Oil on canvas? (oval)
Measurements	260 x 200 mm
Place of origin

Collection	Benthall Hall, Shropshire (Accredited Museum)
On show at	Benthall Hall, Shropshire, Midlands, National Trust

Summary description

Oil painting on panel ? (oval), Mary Anne Marshall, later Mrs William Searle Benthall (1780-1866) as a young girl, as a young girl by J. Wright. Oval. Half-length portrait of Mary Ann Marshall, turned to the left. Long curly fair hair, blue eyes and a rosy complexion, wearing a white high-waisted dress with a blue sash. Inscribed with biographical details written in black ink on reverse. 1780 - 1785.

Full description

There is a miniature painter, John Wright (c.1760-suicde 1820) who exhibited miniatures at the RA 1795-1819, and who did watercolour copies of oil portraits for stipple engravers 1812ff., all of great precision. But, if he was really born as early as 1760, his career begins very late - could he have done these when young?

Provenance

Benthall collection; bequeathed by Sir Arthur Paul Benthall (1902-1992)

Makers and roles

J. Wright, artist

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Record Status

Enhanced