ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE DUNCAN BEECHEY (1798-1852) A portrait of Mary Guillemard
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Born Mary Phillipa Davies Giddy in 1769 to Revd. Edward Giddy, Curate of St. Erth's Church, Cornwall, and his wife Catherine, Mary's elder brother was Davies Gilbert (born Davies Giddy, 1767 –1839), who was High Sheriff of Cornwall from 1792 to 1793, Member of Parliament for Helston in Cornwall from 1804 to 1806 and for Bodmin from 1806 to 1832 and President of the Royal Society from 1827 to 1830. Mary was tutored the famous bluestocking Hannah More. In 1804 Mary married John Lewis Guillemard, a member of a Huguenot refugee family of silk-weavers. In the years preceding their marriage Guillemard had been in America where he was appointed a Commissioner on behalf of England to adjudicate on claims made under the Treaty of Amity with America, having been chosen by ballot in preference to another candidate who had been put forward on behalf of the American representatives. In a despatch from Philadelphia to the Foreign Office dated 27 June 1797 he is described as "a gentleman distinguished for the union of talents and information with uncommon modesty and urbanity" |
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£300 - £500
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Hammer price:
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£650 |
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
depicted half-length with landscape beyond, the sitter wearing a simple red/brown dress, oil on canvas, 79cm x 63cm
