Elizabeth Harvey (19th-century painter)
Elizabeth or Elisabeth Harvey (née Norton, married name de Pulley, 1778 – 12 August 1858) was an English artist known for Malvina Lamenting the Death of Oscar and for portraits of Jacques-Henri Bernardine de Saint-Pierre and his family.
Hans Naef has established, on the basis of letters from Jean-Francois Ducis, that Elisabeth was born out of wedlock to Elizabeth Harvey, née Hill, and William Norton, 2nd Baron Grantley.[1] She studied painting in Italy, where she lived for "five or six years," and then lived in Paris with her mother and elder sister, Henrietta (1774 – 1852).[2]
Under the name Elisabeth Harvey, she exhibited paintings at the Paris Salon between 1802 and 1812, including Malvina Lamenting the Death of Oscar based on a poem by James Macpherson,[3] her Portrait of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and his family, which survives in a copy by Paul-Michel-Claude Carpentier, and a lost painting titled Edwy and Elgiva, among other portraits.[1]
In 1804, the Harvey sisters were the subject of a sketch by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.[4] Either Elisabeth or Henrietta was the subject of another Ingres sketch, Miss Harvey Sketching, in 1807.[5] The memoirs of Auguste Barbier indicates that the friendship between Ingres, the Harveys, and the family of Bernardine de Saint-Pierre continued into the 1840s.[6]
The family was described on the occasion of the 1806 Salon: "…a mother whose intelligence, amiability and enlightened taste in literature and the arts are well known, and alongside a sister who has had some success in the same field. The elder Miss Harvey [Henrietta] has acquired a particular skill in painting in sepia on ivory, from classical models or from the best works of the great masters."[7] Henrietta, however, did not exhibit in the Salon.
On 28 January 1818 she married Etienne-Babolin Randon de Pully, and they had a son, William-Enguerran. In 1850 she was living in the Château de Puygirault. She died there in 1858.[8]
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References[edit]
- ^ a b Naef, Hans (1971). "Henrietta Harvey and Elizabeth Norton: Two English Artists". The Burlington Magazine. 113 (815): 79–89. ISSN 0007-6287. JSTOR 876556.
- ^ Chaussard, Pierre-Jean-Baptiste (1808). Le Pausanias français, ou Description du salon de 1806: état des arts du dessin en France à l'ouverture du XIXe siècle (in French). F. Buisson. p. 139.
- ^ wpengine (2022-07-05). "Professional Women Artists in London and Paris, 1760–1830". Art Herstory. Retrieved 2023-11-29.
- ^ Naef, Hans; Hottinger-Mackie, Mary D. (1956). "Ingres' Portrait Drawings of English Sitters in Rome". The Burlington Magazine. 98 (645): 427–435. ISSN 0007-6287. JSTOR 871962.
- ^ Ribeiro, Aileen (1999). Ingres in Fashion: Representations of Dress and Appearance in Ingres's Images of Women. Yale University Press. pp. 49–51. ISBN 978-0-300-27236-9.
- ^ Barbier, Auguste (1883). Souvenirs personnels et silhouettes contemporaines (in French). E. Dentu. p. 273.
- ^ Chaussard (1808), p. 139; trans. Naef (1971), p. 80.
- ^ Naef (1971), p. 86.